Bugzilla Bug 187430

12/02/07 and 14/02/07 I sent two emails
> new hard drive to add to database
> second new hard drive to add to database

to hddtemp@guzu.net

Obviously, new version Gentoo updated this week does not include peaces of
information I provided to upstream, thus I come down to ask the distro to patch
database for these drives.

I attach informative files as the bug is created (grrr, still not possible to
attach files on bug creation )

Created an attachment (id=126653) [edit]
Seagate ST3400620A

Created an attachment (id=126654) [edit]
Maxtor(reseller) MAxtor(manifacturer) STM3160212A

*** Bug 187429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Created an attachment (id=128606) [edit]
WDC WD2500JS-23MHB0 data report

Please include my drive too!

Is the upstream totally unresponsive with this?  It would normally be better to
have these updates done upstream.  If we include them in the .db file provided
by Gentoo and a user later manually updates the hddtemp database, the updates
will be gone if they are not included in the upstream version.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Is the upstream totally unresponsive with this?  It would normally be better to
> have these updates done upstream.  If we include them in the .db file provided
> by Gentoo and a user later manually updates the hddtemp database, the updates
> will be gone if they are not included in the upstream version.
> 

That is what hapenned to me, reason why I opened this bug ! I reported
upstream, and patched locally months ago, and recently I had a breakage,
because there have been an update that fired away my improovement. I was
expecting the update to include the lines I mailed them, but, in fact, no.

OK, I'll try to contact them during this weekend because I actually also have
an entry to add as well.  If that doesn't work, I guess will do some
Gentoo-specific patching of hddtemp.db.

(In reply to comment #7)
> OK, I'll try to contact them during this weekend because I actually also have
> an entry to add as well.  If that doesn't work, I guess will do some
> Gentoo-specific patching of hddtemp.db.

try something like

for i in disk_ID1 disk_ID2 disk_ID3
do
 cat file.db |grep $i || echo "$i foobar" >>file.db
done

This way, you only add the missing lines, and avoids side effects of
traditionnal patches.

Just to keep everyone updated: the author of hddtemp is currently pretty busy
and has a large backlog of hddtemp db updates. We'll try to work out a solution
that could make everyone happy. 

OK, I decided to go (at least temporarily) with our own mini db.  Thanks for
your drive DB submissions.