Bug 6397

Summary: draklive-install should not uninstall firmwares
Product: Mageia Reporter: Olivier Blin <mageia>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: Olivier Blin <mageia>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: eeeemail, marja11, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: OK
Source RPM: draklive-install CVE:
Status comment:

Description Olivier Blin 2012-06-10 16:42:33 CEST
draklive-install should not uninstall firmwares.
They might be required for devices being hotplugged after live install (USB adapters, modems, ...)
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2012-07-06 13:11:52 CEST
Whiteboard: OK

because assignee assigned to himself

CC: (none) => marja11
Whiteboard: (none) => OK

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-04 17:16:18 CEST
draklive-install has just to run sg like:
system('urpmi', $_) foreach @firmwares_packages
or grep { /firmware|ucode/ } @packages

Or better do it in draklive when doing the live cds.
Less runtime work.

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2014-01-31 11:15:17 CET
*** Bug 12334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => eeeemail

Thierry Vignaud 2015-02-18 18:36:34 CET

CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-17 16:15:11 CEST
We could also filter with list_firmwares.pm
I could alter its format to be an hash instead of just a list.
eg:
our %modules_with_nonfree_firmware = (
amdgpu => 'radeon-firmware',
(...)