Bug 187577

Summary: Separate dmidecode from pmtools. Please create a new rpm.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Hans Deragon <hans>
Component: DevelopmentAssignee: Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: ciaran.farrell, jdelvare, pth, snwint, suse-beta, trenn
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Description Hans Deragon 2006-06-22 19:12:40 UTC
I often want to run the latest dmidecode on my computers, as nice features (string keywords added) are often available in the most recent versions.

On Fedora, I simply rebuild the dmidecode rpm with the latest dmidecode tar file.  I would like to do the same on SuSE, without having to handle the pmtools.  Please consider separating these tools into two separate rpms.  In other words, dmidecode should not be part of the pmtools rpm, but have its own rpm.
Comment 1 Thomas Renninger 2006-06-30 10:16:25 UTC
Dmidecode is included into pmtools by the author (Len Brown) itself.
Still I like the idea.
Will do that for 10.2 as long as nobody complains, Andi/Pavel/Steffen?
Comment 2 Andreas Kleen 2006-06-30 10:18:14 UTC
I think it's better to keep it all in a single rpm.
Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-06-30 10:19:08 UTC
ok with me either way
Comment 4 Thomas Renninger 2006-07-17 15:01:20 UTC
see comment #2.
I also don't see a problem doing the rebuild with pmtools, it shouldn't have much dependencies.
Comment 5 Jean Delvare 2009-04-23 11:50:14 UTC
For reference: openSUSE 11.2 and later will have a separate package for dmidecode.
Comment 6 Thomas Renninger 2009-04-23 12:29:58 UTC
I didn't know we have a bug for that, but if..., let's use it.
Comment 7 Thomas Renninger 2009-04-23 12:32:12 UTC
Package submitted, waiting for license approval from Ciaran who was on holidays for some days...
Comment 8 Ciaran Farrell 2009-04-23 13:11:52 UTC
Package was approved on April 6th. From our pov, you should be ok to go.
Comment 9 Philipp Thomas 2009-06-02 13:15:55 UTC
Reassign to pmtools maintainer
Comment 10 Thomas Renninger 2009-06-02 13:32:08 UTC
There might still be some issues with other packages depending/requiring pmtools.
I sent several submitrequests and will double check in some days what ended up in the distribution.
The split itself has been done -> fixed.