[driver-updates] [RFC] Automatic driver package resolution

[Jon Masters]

Michael E Brown wrote:

> 1) Fedora does not have "Supplements". 

I believe SuSE patches RPM to add this - I think I recall seeing that 
patch at one point when I looked at the SuSE RPM sources in Factory.

> Next, the hwinfo comment. This program/library is not present on Fedora/RHEL

No, and I don't think it will be any time soon - I want to work on a 
higher level client/server GUI tool (Andreas and others know about this 
idea) that will not only look for hardware and drivers but also:

* Use a cross-vendor standardized XML-RPC process to an independent 
database to find out about new yum repos/RPM sources for drivers.

* Provide a GUI to allow the user flexibility in which of multiple 
drivers is chosen, and to give them some kind of interactive response 
similar to that found on other OSes with online update capabilities.

My plan is to get the "grand vision" taken care of before e.g. RHEL6 but 
I agree that Michael's patches can probably go into F7 for the interim.

Jon.