[Yum-devel] [review request] firmware-tools bootstrap plugin

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:05:24AM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> What I am trying to achieve with firmware-tools is that your BIOS and
> other firmware (RAID cards, network, etc) behave from an administration
> point of view just like the rest of the software in your system. It

But the rest of my system doesn't behave like that at all. If I don't have
the right RPM installed for the video driver for a new graphics card,
running yum update doesn't probe my system and magically add it to the list
of packages.

Maybe it should, but it doesn't.


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