Bug 2174837

Summary:
RFE: dnf should be able to automatically select driver packages for installation

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Description:
Description of problem:

We are looking for a way to use either yum or dnf to install required RPM packages from a repository of drivers we provide to our customers, depending on the hardware present in the customer's server. As an example, here is our repository for RHEL 9.0:

https://patches.ts.fujitsu.com/linux/pldp/RHEL9/rhel9/

The RPM packages already contain "provides" properties which look like:

# rpm -q --provides -p kmod-mlnx-en-5.7-3.el9.0.x86_64.rpm | grep modalias
modalias(auxiliary:mlx5_core.eth) = 5.7_1.0.2
modalias(auxiliary:mlx5_core.eth-rep) = 5.7_1.0.2
modalias(auxiliary:mlx5_core.sf) = 5.7_1.0.2
modalias(pci:v000015B3d0000101[3456789ABCDEF]sv*sd*bc*sc*i*) = 5.7_1.0.2
modalias(pci:v000015B3d0000102[13]sv*sd*bc*sc*i*) = 5.7_1.0.2
modalias(pci:v000015B3d0000A2D[236CF]sv*sd*bc*sc*i*) = 5.7_1.0.2

It appears that the v... and d... (e.g. "cv000015B3d0000A2D") correspond to PCIe vendor and device codes of the respective hardware.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
N/A

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to install only those RPM packages from a repository of drivers which correspond to the hardware of a system

Actual results:
You have to manually specify the correct packages which are needed for a specific hardware configuration

Expected results:
There is an option available in yum/dnf which automatically installs only the required hardware driver packages from a repository which contains many more driver packages

Additional info:
This works fine with e.g. SUSE's SLES 15. They provide a special option to their dnf equivalent called "zypper". Their documentation can be found here:
https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-sw-cl.html#sec-zypper-softman-util

Provided the corresponding YUM repository is registered (below referred to as "PRIMERGY PLDP") one may use the following command:

zypper install-new-recommends --no-recommends -r "PRIMERGY PLDP"

This will then check the existing hardware (USB & PCIe IDs, etc.) and select all RPM packages with matching "modalias" patterns.

We are looking for a similar functionality of RHEL, e.g. using yum or dnf which will then trigger the selection and installation of RPM package matching the system's installed hardware configuration. This should not require to provide the driver name and/or the PCIe codes on the command line.