Re: Backport request: smartmontools (squeeze)

[Yann Droneaud <yann@droneaud.fr>]

Le lundi 17 octobre 2011 à 03:16 -0700, Matt Taggart a écrit :
> > According to [1] they where done by Matt Taggart.  Maybe he missed the
> > discussion?
> 
> I saw it, but I haven't had a chance to reply.
> 
> > Matt, are you interested in maintaining smartmontools backports for
> > sqzeeze, too?
> 
> Yes, I will.
> 
> BTW upstream recently split the drive data out to a file and has an 
> update-smart-drivedb script that lets you update the local copy of the 
> drive database (similar to update-pciids/update-usbids).
> 

This feature is definitely a must have.

> But that didn't get enabled until 5.40+svn3296-1 so we still need the 
> backport for squeeze (but also it's nice to have the version of the drivedb 
> shipped in the package up to date too).
> 

Thank you.

Regards.

-- 
Yann Droneaud