FS#25703 : [pciutils] [usbutils] update ID lists via cron (patches included)

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FS#25703 - [pciutils] [usbutils] update ID lists via cron (patches included)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ray (ataraxia) - Sunday, 21 August 2011, 23:29 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 28 April 2012, 15:05 GMT

Task Type	Feature Request
Category	Packages: Core
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	1 Ray (ataraxia) (2011-08-21)
Private	No

Details

(Since both of these packages are maintained by the same person, hopefully it's ok to submit this as one FS instead of two.)

Description:
It would be nice to have a cron job to keep pci.ids and usb.ids up-to-date between updates of the pciutils and usbutils packages. I've implemented this. Based on what other distros seem to be doing, I've made it a monthly job. I've also included a conf.d/ file in each package which allows disabling these cron jobs.

While working on this, I also modified usbutils' PKGBUILD to download usb.ids at build time. Since this works for pciutils, why not do it here?

Included as well are some syntax cleanups for usbutils' PKGBUILD (mostly adding {} around variables and "" around paths).

Additional info:
* package version(s)
pciutils 3.1.7-4
usbutils 004-1

0001-Add-monthly-cron-job-to-... (2.5 KiB)

0001-Several-changes.patch (3.4 KiB)

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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 28 April 2012, 15:05 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: see comment