As a followup to a discussion on [arch-general] in the Linux 2.6.34
thread ([1] and others), I think we should do the following:

- Create a linux-firmware package from the linux-firmware.git tree.
- Make that package conflict and replace all other firmware that it
obsoletes:
replaces=('kernel26-firmware'
'ar9170-fw'
'iwlwifi-1000-ucode'
'iwlwifi-3945-ucode'
'iwlwifi-4965-ucode'
'iwlwifi-5000-ucode'
'iwlwifi-5150-ucode'
'iwlwifi-6000-ucode'
'rt2870usb-fw'
'rt2x00-rt61-fw'
'rt2x00-rt71w-fw')
All other firmware packages contain only files that are not part of
linux-firmware.
- Remove the firmware from the kernel26 PKGBUILD, only use the
linux-firmware package instead

I'm putting a package with the according conflicts/replaces to testing.
Please comment, test it thoroughly and give feedback.

[1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013329.html

Am 19.05.2010 23:39, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
> As a followup to a discussion on [arch-general] in the Linux 2.6.34
> thread ([1] and others), I think we should do the following:
>
> - Create a linux-firmware package from the linux-firmware.git tree.
> - Make that package conflict and replace all other firmware that it
> obsoletes:
> replaces=('kernel26-firmware'
> 'ar9170-fw'
> 'iwlwifi-1000-ucode'
> 'iwlwifi-3945-ucode'
> 'iwlwifi-4965-ucode'
> 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode'
> 'iwlwifi-5150-ucode'
> 'iwlwifi-6000-ucode'
> 'rt2870usb-fw'
> 'rt2x00-rt61-fw'
> 'rt2x00-rt71w-fw')
> All other firmware packages contain only files that are not part of
> linux-firmware.
> - Remove the firmware from the kernel26 PKGBUILD, only use the
> linux-firmware package instead
>
> I'm putting a package with the according conflicts/replaces to testing.
> Please comment, test it thoroughly and give feedback.
>
> [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013329.html
>

Apparently, replaces= won't work until we remove the kernel26-firmware
package. We can do that on the next kernel rebuild. Please run pacman -S
linux-firmware manually for now.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 20/05/10 07:55, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>
>> Am 19.05.2010 23:39, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
>>>
>>> As a followup to a discussion on [arch-general] in the Linux 2.6.34
>>> thread ([1] and others), I think we should do the following:
>>>
>>> - Create a linux-firmware package from the linux-firmware.git tree.
>>> - Make that package conflict and replace all other firmware that it
>>> obsoletes:
>>> replaces=('kernel26-firmware'
>>> * * * * * *'ar9170-fw'
>>> * * * * * *'iwlwifi-1000-ucode'
>>> * * * * * *'iwlwifi-3945-ucode'
>>> * * * * * *'iwlwifi-4965-ucode'
>>> * * * * * *'iwlwifi-5000-ucode'
>>> * * * * * *'iwlwifi-5150-ucode'
>>> * * * * * *'iwlwifi-6000-ucode'
>>> * * * * * *'rt2870usb-fw'
>>> * * * * * *'rt2x00-rt61-fw'
>>> * * * * * *'rt2x00-rt71w-fw')
>>> All other firmware packages contain only files that are not part of
>>> linux-firmware.
>>> - Remove the firmware from the kernel26 PKGBUILD, only use the
>>> linux-firmware package instead
>>>
>>> I'm putting a package with the according conflicts/replaces to testing.
>>> Please comment, test it thoroughly and give feedback.
>>>
>>> [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013329.html
>>>
>>
>> Apparently, replaces= won't work until we remove the kernel26-firmware
>> package. We can do that on the next kernel rebuild. Please run pacman -S
>> linux-firmware manually for now.
>>
>
> The kernel26 package depends on the firmware in a versioned manner, so you would need a versioned provides.
>
> As an aside, should this be an optdepend or a hard depend for the kernel package?

Probably should be:
* not a versioned depend (fix in next rebuild)
* hard depend; yes there are people that might not need it but they
are few and far between so its not worth it here

-Dan

On 20/05/10 07:55, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Am 19.05.2010 23:39, schrieb Thomas Bächler:

As a followup to a discussion on [arch-general] in the Linux 2.6.34
thread ([1] and others), I think we should do the following:

- Create a linux-firmware package from the linux-firmware.git tree.
- Make that package conflict and replace all other firmware that it
obsoletes:
replaces=('kernel26-firmware'
'ar9170-fw'
'iwlwifi-1000-ucode'
'iwlwifi-3945-ucode'
'iwlwifi-4965-ucode'
'iwlwifi-5000-ucode'
'iwlwifi-5150-ucode'
'iwlwifi-6000-ucode'
'rt2870usb-fw'
'rt2x00-rt61-fw'
'rt2x00-rt71w-fw')
All other firmware packages contain only files that are not part of
linux-firmware.
- Remove the firmware from the kernel26 PKGBUILD, only use the
linux-firmware package instead

I'm putting a package with the according conflicts/replaces to testing.
Please comment, test it thoroughly and give feedback.

[1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013329.html



Apparently, replaces= won't work until we remove the kernel26-firmware
package. We can do that on the next kernel rebuild. Please run pacman -S
linux-firmware manually for now.



The kernel26 package depends on the firmware in a versioned manner, so
you would need a versioned provides.


As an aside, should this be an optdepend or a hard depend for the kernel
package?


Allan

Am 20.05.2010 00:01, schrieb Allan McRae:
>> Apparently, replaces= won't work until we remove the kernel26-firmware
>> package. We can do that on the next kernel rebuild. Please run pacman -S
>> linux-firmware manually for now.
>>
>
> The kernel26 package depends on the firmware in a versioned manner, so
> you would need a versioned provides.

There IS a versioned provides.

On 20/05/10 08:08, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Am 20.05.2010 00:01, schrieb Allan McRae:

Apparently, replaces= won't work until we remove the kernel26-firmware
package. We can do that on the next kernel rebuild. Please run pacman -S
linux-firmware manually for now.



The kernel26 package depends on the firmware in a versioned manner, so
you would need a versioned provides.


There IS a versioned provides.



So it does.... my bad.

I was sure replaces worked even when a package was still in the repos.
My guess is that it needs to come "earlier" in pacman search (i.e. in
an earlier repo or have an alphabetically earlier name) so that pacman
does not see the needed deps already satisfied. Maybe this should be
improved.

Am 20.05.2010 00:28, schrieb Allan McRae:
> On 20/05/10 08:08, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 20.05.2010 00:01, schrieb Allan McRae:
>>>> Apparently, replaces= won't work until we remove the kernel26-firmware
>>>> package. We can do that on the next kernel rebuild. Please run
>>>> pacman -S
>>>> linux-firmware manually for now.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The kernel26 package depends on the firmware in a versioned manner, so
>>> you would need a versioned provides.
>>
>> There IS a versioned provides.
>>
>
> So it does.... my bad.
>
> I was sure replaces worked even when a package was still in the repos.
> My guess is that it needs to come "earlier" in pacman search (i.e. in an
> earlier repo or have an alphabetically earlier name) so that pacman does
> not see the needed deps already satisfied. Maybe this should be improved.
>

I already discussed this with Dan. He thinks this is the reason:
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=882bff36acad5c47df5b35fd3afb411dc4f092b0