Re: [DNG] suggestion

[Kees Schoenmakers]

Hi,

I see the argument for installation without network connection. But
yes, it could 'try' and it _may_ fail silently, but it tried to do
best.

Kees


On 8/18/17, Olaf Meeuwissen  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kees Schoenmakers writes:
>
>> When I installed Devuan first time on my (recently new) hardware, I
>> was initially left with some vague information provided by 'lspci'.
>> That hindered me by searching/selecting the right
>> drivers and X configuration. I discovered the 'update_pciids' utility
>> in /usr/sbin.
>> After running that everything got more clear for me.
>>
>> "RUN the 'update_pciids' utility as part of the installation process
>> on the target!"
>
> Ditto for update-usbids, modulo most of what has been mentioned in the
> rest of the thread up to this point.
>
> Hope this helps,
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Re: [DNG] suggestion

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi,

Kees Schoenmakers writes:

> When I installed Devuan first time on my (recently new) hardware, I
> was initially left with some vague information provided by 'lspci'.
> That hindered me by searching/selecting the right
> drivers and X configuration. I discovered the 'update_pciids' utility
> in /usr/sbin.
> After running that everything got more clear for me.
>
> "RUN the 'update_pciids' utility as part of the installation process
> on the target!"

Ditto for update-usbids, modulo most of what has been mentioned in the
rest of the thread up to this point.

Hope this helps,
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Re: [DNG] suggestion

[John Franklin]

> On Aug 17, 2017, at 3:31 AM, Kees Schoenmakers  wrote:
> 
> When I installed Devuan first time on my (recently new) hardware, I
> was initially left with some vague information provided by 'lspci'.
> That hindered me by searching/selecting the right
> drivers and X configuration. I discovered the 'update_pciids' utility
> in /usr/sbin.
> After running that everything got more clear for me.
> 
> "RUN the 'update_pciids' utility as part of the installation process
> on the target!”

Adding a network dependency on a package install is generally a bad idea.  What 
happens if the machine doesn’t have external network access, as is often the 
case for corporate build servers or people installing Devuan from USB sticks 
where the wireless card isn’t supported by the base kernel?  Should the package 
install fail or silently continue?

It would be better for the lspci program to emit a warning “PCI ID list is out 
of date, please run update_pciids to update.”  

Adding a cron job to the lspci package is also an option.

jf
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Re: [DNG] suggestion

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:31:10 +0200, Kees wrote in message 

[DNG] suggestion

[Kees Schoenmakers]

Hello,

When I installed Devuan first time on my (recently new) hardware, I
was initially left with some vague information provided by 'lspci'.
That hindered me by searching/selecting the right
drivers and X configuration. I discovered the 'update_pciids' utility
in /usr/sbin.
After running that everything got more clear for me.

"RUN the 'update_pciids' utility as part of the installation process
on the target!"

best regards

Kees

PS The system runs very stable and I am extremely satisfied by it. I
managed to replace the X server by one 'borrowed' from Kubuntu because
the original X-server (Devuan) could not give me  dual-head, where the
Kubuntu X-server does...
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Re: [Dng] Suggestion for vdev

[Jude Nelson]

Hi James,

Apologies for the late reply--things have been busy at work lately.

I'd be happy to add an OpenRC init script :)  I opened an issue for it
here: https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev/issues/27

Also, a BSD-style init script would be nice at some point (
https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev/issues/28).

-Jude

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:05 PM, James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Jude, when vdev gets mature enough, could you submit an init script to the
 OpenRC project, please?

 Thanks,
 Jim

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[Dng] Suggestion for vdev

[James Powell]

Jude, when vdev gets mature enough, could you submit an init script to the 
OpenRC project, please?

Thanks,
Jim
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