Bug 169052 - dmidecode outdated
Summary: dmidecode outdated
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel-utils
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-22 16:00 UTC by Florian Brand
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-23 21:06:59 UTC
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Description Florian Brand 2005-09-22 16:00:47 UTC 
dmidecode is seriously outdated.
the RHEL4 version does not support any options and does not include a manpage.
Current versions do :)
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-09-23 21:06:59 UTC 
newer versions of this tool introduce some incompatabilities which some other
parts of the os depend on (such as hal).

there's potential for much breakage, at little gain here.
Unless we have a customer complaining about a case where the existing dmidecode
doesnt work, I don't think we should change it for rhel4.
Comment 2 Florian Brand 2005-09-25 21:47:36 UTC 
The thing I was looking for, was the -s option to search for a specific DMI entry.
Specifically I wanted to find out the serial numbers of a bunch of machines in a
hurry. 


IMHO let's at least look at this again for RHEL5.
Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-09-26 03:56:43 UTC 
RHEL5 will inherit the latest version of dmidecode which is already in rawhide.
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