[arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

[Thomas Bächler]

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.

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