Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2016-05-22):
> On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 19:26 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > [ Note: I've added d-l-e to the loop since people there might have some
> > insight about the prompt update I'm proposing. ]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > An email earlier today reminded me of this old topic: it would be nice
> > if hw-detect would point us to the right firmware package(s) instead of
> > letting D-I only report the list of missing firmware files.
> >
> > I've modified hw-detect to make it possible to build (and update) such
> > a mapping:
> >
> > ${firmware_filename} ${firmware_package} ${section}
>
> That information already exists in DEP-11 metadata that APT will
> download for us.
Right, forgot about that. But what the mapping is built from doesn't
really change the need for embedding it, see below.
> > which is going to be shipped as usr/share/hw-detect/firmware-map in
> > the hw-detect binary.
> >
> > Like choose-mirror, this file is generated outside of the source and
> > binary builds (since it needs network access), and will need updating
> > from time to time (ideally once before every release, but I'll probably
> > add a cron job on d-i.debian.org to get notifications).
> [...]
>
> Please use the existing index which will stay up-to-date.
Well, this needs to be embedded within d-i for a number of installation
images. We can't rely on a network mirror in any cases, and we don't
have dep11 in cdrom images at the moment either. Checking with
debian-stretch-DI-alpha6-i386-netinst.iso:
dists/stretch/contrib/binary-i386/Release
dists/stretch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
dists/stretch/main/binary-i386/Release
dists/stretch/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz
dists/stretch/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Release
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-ca.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-cs.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-da.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-de_DE.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-de.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-en.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-eo.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-es.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-eu.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-fi.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-fr.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-hr.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-hu.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-id.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-it.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-ja.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-km.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-ko.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-nb.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-nl.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-pl.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-pt_BR.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-pt.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-ro.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-ru.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-sk.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-sr.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-sv.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-uk.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-vi.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-zh_CN.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-zh.gz
dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-zh_TW.gz
dists/stretch/Release
KiBi.
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