[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Gzipped pci.ids file

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:13:05PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello, world!\n
> 
> > It isn't, thanks to the design of zlib and libpci matching.  I haven't
> > tried to tidy this up much; consider it a proof of concept.  Since it
> > adds a new dependency to pciutils, I think it's something that should
> > have to be automatically configured.
> 
> First of all -- does it really make sense to allow only compressed pci.ids
> if the library is built with compression support?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to search for pci.ids.gz first and fall back to pci.ids?

I don't know.  My initial reaction was "Yes", but then I started
wondering about what happens when we have both a pci.ids.gz and a
pci.ids ... will it confuse the user if one is newer than the other, yet
we use the older one?

It's not particularly hard for the user to compress pci.ids if they need
to, and the last patch I sent makes update-pciids download and install
the .gz version, so this is a case which shouldn't happen.