Bug 120079

Summary:	hwinfo needs option for alternative /var/lib/hardware dir
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Component:	Update Problems	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-04 10:32:58 UTC

libhd/hwinfo need a way to specify an alternative /var/lib/hardware directory. 
This would be useful for updates where data from the old location are 
needed.

Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-01-31 14:56:18 UTC

implemented in hwinfo 12.2

'hwinfo --hddb-dir=/foo/var/lib/hardware --whatever' or 'LIBHD_HDDB_DIR=/foo/var/lib/hardware hwinfo --whatever'

Last variant works with libhd in general.

Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2006-01-31 15:05:58 UTC

Thanks, replaced the call to "hwinfo --map" with
"LIBHD_HDDB_DIR=/mnt/var/lib/hardware hwinfo --map" in Storage.ycp