Yesterday, I -asked +asked for testers for my prototype for making Debian better at handling pluggable hardware devices, which I -set +set out to create earlier this month. Several valuable testers showed up, and caused me to really want to to open up the development to more people. But before I did this, I want to come up with a sensible name @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ clone argument to avoid the need for authentication.
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ clone argument to avoid the need for authentication.Early this month I set out to try to -improve +improve the Debian support for pluggable hardware devices. Now my prototype is working, and it is ready for a larger audience. To test it, fetch the @@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ are some screen shots showing the prototype in action. First the notification, then the password request, and finally the request to approve all the dependencies. Sorry for the Norwegian Bokmål GUI.
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The prototype still need to be improved with longer timeouts, but is already useful. The database of hardware to package mappings also @@ -155,14 +155,14 @@ devscripts package.
Update 2013-01-23 12:00: The project is now renamed to Isenkram and the source moved from the Debian Edu subversion repository to a Debian collab-maint git repository. See -build +build instructions for details.
Yesterday, I wrote about the -modalias +modalias values provided by the Linux kernel following my hope for -better +better dongle support in Debian. Using this knowledge, I have tested how modalias values attached to package names can be used to map packages to hardware. This allow the system to look up and suggest relevant @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
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For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ please send me an email. :)
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