Re: [atomic-devel] nominate pciutils for inclusion in base atomic tree

[Jeremy Eder <jeder redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Brockmeier" <jzb redhat com>
> To: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:09:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] nominate pciutils for inclusion in base atomic tree
> 
> On 10/29/2014 10:50 AM, Jeremy Eder wrote:
> > lspci is useful for determining what hardware is installed in a system, and
> > what it's capabilities are.
> > Information such as if a device is installed in a slot with the most
> > performant bus width, model numbers, PCI ids.
> >
> > Would it be possible to include the pciutils package in the atomic-host
> > base tree ?
> 
> My question would be if we're imagining people logging in and running
> lspci on every host? I don't have a strong objection, as it won't add a
> lot to the image.

It's a support, debug and analysis tool.  For example, sosreport doesn't require pciutils, but it does try to run lspci.

If inclusion of this tool breaks a paradigm you're trying to stick to, we can keep going with our privileged/debug container.  Just thought I'd mention it.