Re: Possible noteworthy packages
Hi Luca!
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:04:13 +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Luca Capello wrote:
> >> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:11:54 +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >> > amd64-microcode: Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs (non-free)
> >> > intel-microcode: Processor microcode data file for Intel CPUs (non-free)
> >> > iucode-tool: Intel processor microcode tool (contrib)
> >>
> >> ...I find a bit strange that we have firmware-*, fonts-*, etc. packages
> >> but in this case it is the other way around and not microcode-*. Is
> >> there any specific reason for this?
> >
> > Yes, about 10 years of precedence due to "intel-microcode" (yes, it is that
> > old, and yet most people still don't know it exists...)
> >
> > The firmware-* packages actually have some assumptions on how they operate
> > and interact with the installer, which the *-microcode packages do not
> > follow (and might not be able to follow in some cases).
> >
> > This is likely to be addressed post-Wheezy, but it is a bit more involved
> > than just renaming the packages.
>
> Thank you for the explanation, I really appreciate. And also thank you
> for having left a possibility for the switch ;-)
Sure. BTW, I just got a grave bug on intel-microcode, so it is best to hold
any announcements of the packages until I figure out what whet wrong.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688794
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Henrique Holschuh
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