update-pciids: Report itself as an user agent, version included

Unfortunately, this leads to the User-Agent not containing version
of curl/wget/lynx we used.

update-pciids: Re-compress pci.ids if needed

Previously, if pciutils were configured with compression of pci.ids,
update-pciids downloaded the gzipped version. Now, it downloads the
most compressed

update-pciids: Re-compress pci.ids if needed

Previously, if pciutils were configured with compression of pci.ids,
update-pciids downloaded the gzipped version. Now, it downloads the
most compressed version for which tools are found installed, and
recompresses it to gzip if needed.

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update-pciids: Add support for xz compression

Use "command -v" instead of "which"

Apparently, people started considering "which" obsolete. I still
consider "which" rather useful and definitely more comfortable to type
than "command -v".

Still,

Use "command -v" instead of "which"

Apparently, people started considering "which" obsolete. I still
consider "which" rather useful and definitely more comfortable to type
than "command -v".

Still, "command -v" should be more portable, so let us use it.
I wonder which of the ancient systems which we are still supporting
will be broken by this change...

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update-pciids: Make the backup with a hardlink instead of a move

If we move the file while making a backup, we can end up with no
pci.ids database in case the next step fails.

update-pciids: Fix spacing style

Fix code alignment by using a hard-tab instead of 4 spaces. Add a blank
line after set -e.

update-pciids: Move quiet setting after set -e

We should set -e as the first thing to catch any errors, so move the
quiet setup after the other variables setup.

update-pciids: Download pci.ids over HTTPS

Fix syntax error when PCI_COMPRESSED_IDS is empty.

update-pciids: Download from pci-ids.ucw.cz

update-pciids: Be more friendly to people who tweak the settings

If somebody changes PCI_COMPRESSED_IDS to 0 manually, honor this
setting.

Suggested by Guido Trentalancia.

Call wget with --no-timestamping.

If --timestamping was set in .wgetrc, wget fails, because it is unable to
handle --timestamping and -O simultaneously (for no apparent reason, but
the maintainers h

Call wget with --no-timestamping.

If --timestamping was set in .wgetrc, wget fails, because it is unable to
handle --timestamping and -O simultaneously (for no apparent reason, but
the maintainers have decided that this bug has graduated to a feature,
see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22896).

Thanks to Ville Skytta for pointing that out.

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Added quiet mode (-q). Clean up uncompressed files left by previous
versions of the pciutils. Patch by Mike Frysinger.

Added support for compressed pci.ids.

Use curl if available.

git-archimport-id: [email protected]/pciutils--main--2.2--patch-92

Compatibility changes

git-archimport-id: [email protected]/pciutils--main--2.2--patch-80

update-pciids should preserve permissions

* update-pciids.sh: Try to preserve permissions of the old file
if chmod supports --reference. Should close Debian Bug #223740.
git-archimport-id: [email protected]

update-pciids should preserve permissions

* update-pciids.sh: Try to preserve permissions of the old file
if chmod supports --reference. Should close Debian Bug #223740.
git-archimport-id: [email protected]/pciutils--main--2.2--patch-24

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Added update-pciids.