76402 – sys-apps/uhinv-0.4 : should not install its own copy of pci.ids

Bug 76402 - sys-apps/uhinv-0.4 : should not install its own copy of pci.ids

Summary: sys-apps/uhinv-0.4 : should not install its own copy of pci.ids

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2005-01-02 06:02 UTC by Stephane Loeuillet
Modified:	2005-10-24 02:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Stephane Loeuillet 2005-01-02 06:02:51 UTC

uhinv (used by gentoo-stats/basc), provides its own (outdated) copy of pci.ids

it should be better to add pciutils as a dependancy and patch the Makefile not to install a duplicated pci.ids file

or changing uhinv to use the global pci.ids if found, then fallback to its own copy if not


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Talamona Francesco 2005-01-02 07:03:29 UTC

I agree about the unification, but pci.ids shipped with uhinv is more up to date (sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r1 and sys-apps/uhinv-0.4).

Comment 2 Stephane Loeuillet 2005-01-02 07:28:14 UTC

pciutils ships "update-pciids" which uses wget to fetch a newer snapshot when run

perhaps a cron job should be added to pciutils ebuild to launch this script once every 1 or 2 monthes (snapshots aren't updated that much)

Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-01-05 14:22:58 UTC

Making uhinv depend upon pciutils is rather silly, since uhinv runs just fine on non-PCI systems...

Comment 4 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-27 16:16:10 UTC

What's the status of uhinv?
Upstream seems to have gone bye bye (project admin locking the project page)..

Comment 5 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-24 02:41:57 UTC

I'll remove this ebuild from portage since it seems no longer actively maintained.