[packagekit] udev installing firmware? insanity or super cool?

[Adrien BUSTANY]

That'd be great, really. Your "implementation" seems sane to me... Again 
though, we have that name convention... All the distros have to call the 
package with the same name. But distros can patch that.

Adrien

Richard Hughes a écrit :
> Another interesting use case: system software like udev wanting to
> install drivers or firmware.
>
> Now, technically it's not that difficult. The social problem is more
> important, as you don't want software being automatically downloaded and
> installed as you boot your computer, even if you had the network up at
> that point. I think what DavidZ suggests in one comment in
> http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/113659.html?thread=479995 is
> probably the best idea:
>
> * udev needs firmware that is not installed
> * udev writes to the file (as root) /var/PackageKit/system-installer/udev-needs-intelfirmware
>     this file contains: "file:iw3945.dat,udev,firmware needed" or "package: iwl3945-firmware,udev,firmware needed"
>
> system boots as normal, and user logs in.
>
> A few minutes after booting the user gets the message saying:
>
> === System software needs installing ===
>
> Software has been requested by the system automatically.
> The software that asked for the install was: udev
> The reason given was: firmware needed
>
> [Install] [Do not install] [Ignore]
>
> If the user clicks Install then you get the PolicyKit prompt and all the
> normal jazz, and afterwards the
> file /var/PackageKit/system-installer/udev-needs-intelfirmware is
> deleted.
>
> My personal view would just be to install the firmware by default,
> rather than do this per-driver, but I thought the idea could do with
> some discussion as it's quite an interesting use case. Would anything
> else benefit from this functionality?
>
> Richard.
>
>
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