Closed paulmenzel closed 2 months ago
Hi Paul,
in this case you could easily make a workaround: ln -sf /usr/share/misc/ /usr/share/hwdata
We could add the Debian specific path to a kind of search list and keep adding paths to it for each different distribution out there. Perhaps you could submit a pull request for a minor change like this?
Cheers, Otto
Dear Otto, thank you for the quick reply.
in this case you could easily make a workaround:
ln -sf /usr/share/misc/ /usr/share/hwdata
Yeah, I know.
We could add the Debian specific path to a kind of search list and keep adding paths to it for each different distribution out there. Perhaps you could submit a pull request for a minor change like this?
What distribution do you target?
I am not good C++ coder, and would pass on this task to somebody doing this in a minute. Sorry.
No problem, i made a quick fix and pushed it to the internal repo, on the next sync to public github it should become available. Leaving this open until the code is merged here.
Debian uses a different location for the PCI ids text file: