updating usb and pci id lists

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Dazed_75 wrote:

> I just learned that one can use "sudo update-pciids" and "sudo
> update-usbids" to update the id lists for pcu and usb devices (I am using
> ubuntu 9.10).  I also learned that apparently the system is not set up to
> automate this in any way.  I've never seen any advice to do so.  Checking it

heh

and there is resistance even then

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537206

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466041

-- Russ herrold