[Lhcp-devel] Did any of you check out the ubuntu hwdb system?
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Thu Feb 1 09:10:12 UTC 2007
The Ubuntu hwdb system is asking the user what work and doesn't, and
ship the information off to a database. Unfortunately, the
information collected isn't easily available. Here is a post I sent
to debian-devel@ i November about it:
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
Subject: Automatically collect hardware information from users?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:40:17 +0100
I just discovered ubuntu got a tool I have been planning to make for
Debian, the hwdb-client package making it trivial for the user to
submit information about their hardware to a central location. The
source for it is available from
<URL:ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hwdb-client/>, and the
data is submitted to <URL:http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/>.
Anyone know more about this? That database would make the life of us
discover-data maintainers a lot easier. Should we set up our own
database, or can we get access to and a copy of the Ubuntu database?
I notice Mandriva have a similar system also called hwdb-clients, and
it report info to <URL:http://hwdb.mandriva.com/>. Is this a similar
system or the same system?
It should be fairly easy to port the Ubuntu client to Debian, and the
user-visible server part is a script accepting HTTP put/post. It seem
to be very similar to the popularity-contest HTTP collector. The
interesting parts of the server on the other hand would be the parts
making reports based on the reported hardware information.
Friendly,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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