Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 4/15/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Seems the biggest issue is of course, the KDE bindings, but we >> also need to address the issue of the gzipped pci.ids file that >> chokes HAL. My solution is a script that I run called pciids_update >> that calls the actual update-pciids program and then: >> >> mv pci.ids.gz pci.ids.gz.SAVE >> cp pci.ids.gz.SAVE pci.ids.gz >> gunzip -f pci.ids.gz >> mv pci.ids.gz.SAVE pci.ids.gz >> >> Then, init scripts run the above at boot which updates both the >> gzipped and non-gzipped versions of the pci.ifs file. We've >> discussed this before and most determined they didn't want it >> updated at boot, so we have to figure out when/where to do it. >> Or, figure out a better solution. >> > > That's much more clever than I was thinking. I came around to your > original idea to just having a note: "If you're planning on using HAL, > it will only check for the uncompressed pci.ids. Be sure to decompress > pci.ids.gz after updating, if this is the case. If you'd like to > suppress the compression behavior in pciutils completely, pass ZLIB=no > when executing make." > > The init script works, though. > Sorry for dropping in so suddenly after being away for so long, but what happened to modifying the update-pciids script directly as Bruce had suggested? Are there programs that expect the gz version exclusively?
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