Hi,
I didn't suggest it either. (?!)2011/8/1 Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayatv@gmail.com>:Hi all, 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. 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. What do you think?Hi, Thx for your interest. Either it will be used by default or not is another problem, I don't think it is usefull to impose this solution for all rpmfusion users. But this is more a choice for a derived distro that can bundle the jockey package by default.
I'll start a review after knowing how it can get modalias info (either through a dependency or RPM provides). The latter needs to be developed, but it is not much work.So, Jockey is acceptable in RPM Fusion as any other packages. You can start a review request. What are the informations needed to be extracted from the driver, and how ?
I don't know if it is a good idea, and if RPM and yum work fine with provides which has '*' in them. If we would like to add them to RPM, some of them might add more than 10 provides. But, if it can be added to RPMs, the functionality might be even added to PackageKit itself like what is done for fonts or printer drivers.What I expect is module alias could be stored into rpm itself. That's what is done with dell repository and firmware-tools (that is already in fedora). So I wonder if that could be extented with pci drivers easily instead.
Nicolas (kwizart)