Package: hw-detect Version: 1.50 Tags: patch For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. An example is the RAID monitoring and administration tools needed to check and configure a hardware RAID (like cpqarrayd and mpt-status). Another is a TV card which might need V4L(2) tools to configure it.
In Debian, the discover tool is capable of handling this for USB and PCI devices at the moment. I've written a wrapper script discover-pkginstall to provide hw-detect with a simple way to get these hardware specific packages installed by the installer. The feature have been on my todo list for a long time, so I report this against an old hw-detect version to document this. :) To make the feature really useful, the database with hardware to package mappings in discover-data need to be updated to list all the packages that should be installed when a given PCI or USB device is discovered. At the moment there are 34 PCI and 48 USB devices with package mappings in the database, but I am sure there are more hardware we should handle out there. This untested patch relative to the current svn source should implement this feature: Index: hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/60install-hwpackages =================================================================== --- hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/60install-hwpackages (revision 0) +++ hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/60install-hwpackages (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +set -e + +. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule + +apt-install discover || true +if [ -x /target/sbin/discover-pkginstall ] ; then + in-target discover-pkginstall +fi I suspect it need more work to get the debconf stuff to work properly from within d-i. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl7hodrh1h....@login2.uio.no
