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[PATCH 0/2] gnu: pciutils: Unbundle pci.ids and use latest.

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From: Brendan Tildesley <mail <at> brendan.scot>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#54069] [PATCH 0/2] gnu: pciutils: Unbundle pci.ids and use latest.
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 05:44:24 +0100 (CET)

> On 02/24/2022 4:32 AM Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> 
> A Makefile is provided and has an install target; we should use it.  It
> installs the following files:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> IDFILES = pci.ids usb.ids oui.txt iab.txt pnp.ids
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
Note that it doesn't gzip them, and oui.txt is 8.4MB. Dependencies only tend
to need one or two of these files, lke usb.ids or pci.ids. Also the hwdata project
only updates these every couple months. We could define a package for each individual
file, then if for some reason all are needed in a directory, a "hwdata" union package
 could be created.
Also, this hwdata project is not fully up to date either but have 1-2 month old versions.
It also installs dist-blacklist.conf. Do we need that?

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