[pkg-fso-maint] install.sh - vfat part1 supported, wicd remains difficult

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Sat Feb 21 16:10:12 UTC 2009


On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:02:45 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:

> Rather than installing with apt-get, which for some non-understood reasons starts the
> wicd, 

The reason is known: dh_installinit adds the "start the daemon"
stanza to postinst.

> I have added wicd to the list of extra packages to be installed with cdebootstrap.
> For some reason unknown to me - but hopefully known to you - this is ignored.

Hu? Interesting.
 
> The configuration is installed as before, but now allows the config file to be already
> existing.
> 
>         case "$WITH_WIFI" in
>           "wicd")
>                 # the package was already installed via cdebootstrap
>                 echo " * Installing wicd for wifi setup"
>                 if [ -r "$INST_DIR/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf" ]; then
>                         grep -v ^wired_interface "$INST_DIR/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf" > \
>                                 "$INST_DIR/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf"
>                 else
>                         mkdir $INST_DIR/etc/wicd
>                 fi
>                 echo "wired_interface =" >> $INST_DIR/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf
>                 ;;
> 

If my tests from the other night are not flawed then wicd won't start
if /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf exists before the first start but
contains only the single line
"wired_interface ="
.


FWIW: I had a look at mofi and lint-wifi yesterday; both are not
packaged for Debian, and both are frustrating (things like no
tarballs, strange stuff in svn, embedded python modules (which are
not packaged either), and so on ...)

Cheers,
gregor

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