I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] >> Fetch every time and fetch once. That looks like a difference to me...
> How could "fetch every time" possibly be acceptable to the SC when "fetch > once" is not? Are you saying that the "rancid-installer" package could go > in main, if it re-downloaded and reinstalled the program every time it was > used? Of course not--there is no difference to the SC. I don't believe that I've made any comments about freeness of the firmware installer package (though I've definitely said things about kernel modules for devices which, to be useful, require firmware uploads). I merely consider fetch-every-time to be broken (and you can add "firmware no longer available for download" to the list of reasons). >>>>> This could be as simple as mounting a tmpfs on /lib/firmware, and >>>>> wgetting >> [my comments about network availability removed - RELEVANT CONTEXT] > The removed quotes were superfluous to my response, so no, they weren't > relevant. Stop yelling. They were relevant to the text which you *didn't* snip. You should have summarised them or left them in place. And you've not marked where you've removed text :-\ -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) Answers on a postcard please to 10 Downing Street, London SW1.
