Ubuntu
flashrom package

  1. Bug #540949
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 540949

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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz) wrote :

Hi Fabrice,

I talked with Uwe Hermann (flashrom developer and maintainer of the Debian package), Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (project leader of flashrom) and Michael Karcher (flashrom developer) and they all agreed that dmidecode should be in the "Recommends" section of the package as I said before.

The error message:

sh: dmidecode: not found

when calling flashrom without dmidecode installed cannot be avoided, however. It's not easy to implement a platform-independent mechanism to find out whether and where dmidecode is installed on the host system. The flashrom guys said that such code would break the DOS port. But, since flashrom works perfectly despite the error message, you should use their recommended way and put dmidecode into "Recommends". When the user wants to use the full capabilities of flashrom, he/she should install dmidecode as well.

Adrian