New upload candidate

[Kel Modderman]

Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi Kel,
>
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006, Kel Modderman wrote:
>   
>> IMO, the current pkg-madwifi SVN is ready for a new upload when you are. 
>> It fixes some non-critical bugs and cleans up the control file somewhat. 
>> All dpatches were merged upstream.
>>     
>
>  Sure, uploaded.
>   

Thanks Loic, appreciate it.

>
>  FYI, regarding testing against the current Debian kernels:
>  - 2.6.16 was just uploaded as a new separate source package in Debian
>  since it is currently the target kernel for the release of etch in
>  December.
>  - I can't install the headers of 2.6.17 either due to a packaging bugs
>  in the kernel packages.
>   

Ok, I have a test box that would be/is able to do this. It will be 
equipped with two madwifi driven cards with heavy use of the hostapd and 
wpasupplicant applications.

BTW, I'll be involved with the packaging of hostapd now, so hopefully I 
can bring some enhancements to it, and unify support for madwifi in both 
hostapd and wpasupplicant packages for debian.


>   
>> As for upstream tarball origin, you may use svn export now if you wish 
>> without pruning .svn dirs, however the true snapshot date will not be 
>> collected by MODULE_VERSION(), rather the last major release number 
>> (0.9.1) will.
>>     
>
>  That's ok, perhaps you would be interested in using the Debian version
>  when it is available?  You can get it from dpkg-parsechangelog.
>
>    

The following code seems to work pretty well:

Index: debian/rules
===================================================================
--- debian/rules        (revision 161)
+++ debian/rules        (working copy)
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@

 DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_ALL := -XTHANKS

+build/madwifi-source::
+       # Make a dummy SNAPSHOT file when we are based on a svn 
export/snapshot
+       if ! grep --quiet '"RELEASE"' release.h; then \
+               echo "Debian SVN Snapshot" > SNAPSHOT; \
+               dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Version: 
0\.svnr/Revision: /p' | \
+                       cut -d'.' -f1 >> SNAPSHOT; \
+               dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n '/^Date: /p' >> SNAPSHOT; \
+       fi
+
 build/madwifi-tools::
        $(MAKE) -C tools all CC=$(CC)

It will be committed to SVN shortly.

Thanks, Kel.