On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
> RPM upstream doesn't currently support hardware dependencies. IIRC SuSE
> does something like this in zypper/libzypp. They add all pci ids (and
> probably USB and may be other sources) as Provides: to the transaction.
> They also have an extension to match for Providename patterns. This
> allows have drivers Supplement: a range of hardware.
>
> I couldn't find any docs on a quick web search. No idea if it is still
> being used.
Yes, those are still in use. The supplements are of the form:
Supplements: modalias(<some_modalias_glob>)
or
Supplements: modalias(<package>:<some_modalias_glob>)
(The version with the package is no longer needed when we support
"and" with the new rich deps.)
An example is:
modalias(xorg-x11-server:pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc*i*)
which matches the nouveau modalias on my system.
The mechanism is implemented with libsolv's namespace callback.
libzypp also supports locale() and filesystem() supplements.
Cheers,
Michael.
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