ANNOUNCE: biosdevname 0.2.1, packaging for Fedora and OpenSUSE

[Rudy Gevaert]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> I've renamed bios_dev_name to biosdevname (to make it easier to
> package in Debian/Ubuntu), and have released version 0.2.1 with RPM
> spec files that build on Fedora, RHEL, OpenSUSE, and SLES.  This is
> submitted as Fedora review request
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254048 and added
> to the OpenSUSE Wishlist http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Base.  Based
> on acceptance there, I'll pursue inclusion in the respective
> Enterprise distros.  I started Debian packaging, but I'm really not an
> expert at that, so assistance would be gratefully accepted.
> 

If have made Debian packages of the first version.  To be found on
http://users.ugent.be/~rgevaert/bios-dev-name/.  You could use it as a 
starting point.

> 
> Based on feedback on the linux-hotplug-devel list, this is a
> standalone app that requires udev, and acts as a udev helper, but is
> not included in udev.
> 
> biosdevname is released under the GNU GPL v2.
> Homepage: http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname
> Tarballs: http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/biosdevname-0.2.1.tar.gz
> 	  http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/biosdevname-0.2.1.tar.gz.sign
> GIT: http://linux.dell.com/git/biosdevname.git
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 


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