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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I'm Hedayat Vatankhah, a developer and a Fedora packager. As
explained at [1], I have ported Jockey (Ubuntu's driver installer)
to Fedora. Since its existence doesn't make any sense in Fedora
without thirdparty repositories (except if configured to manage
all hardware driver modules (even the free ones as standard kernel
modules) which is not of much use), and it depends on RPMFusion
for additional drivers, I think it should be added to RPMFusion
instead of Fedora. Therefore, I'm interested to include it in
RPMFusion.</p>
<p>However, before submitting the package, there is something which
should be solved. Jockey needs to somehow determine which drivers
are needed for a special hardware. To do so, it relies on a
mapping between hardware modaliases and kernel modules and
packages. Currently, I have downloaded all hardware driver kmods
from RPMFusion and extracted the list of supported modaliases
using modinfo and stored them in a single file. But this is
certainly not the way to go. Each kmod package should provide the
list of supported modaliases by itself. Two methods come into my
mind: adding modaliases as kmod RPM's provides (I'm not even sure
if all of the required characters are supported as RPM provides;
and I suggest the other method) or creating a sub-package for each
kmod (e.g. kmod-nvidia-modaliases) which includes one file (inside
/usr/share/jockey/modaliases/) listing all supported modaliases in
the appropriate format. Then, we can have a metapackage (e.g.
rpmfusion-modaliases) which jockey will depend on. </p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Hedayat<br>
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<p>[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hedayatvk.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/parsidora-15-and-a-special-feature-ubuntu-hardware-driver-installer-jockey/">http://hedayatvk.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/parsidora-15-and-a-special-feature-ubuntu-hardware-driver-installer-jockey/</a><br>
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