Bug#360387: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#360387: wpasupplicant: please support the "old" daemon mode as an configuration option

[Joerg Platte]

Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 20:33 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> I have no problems with shipping the old init script (or an improved
> one) in /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples. The local administrator
> would have to install and activate it himself.

Local administrators can then write their own script. That's no problem. But 
administrators sometimes want to avoid this, since they are lazy :-)

> I'm not happy in installing it again in /etc/init.d per default. IMO
> using wpasupplicant as system daemon is a highly nontrivial setup, which

Nontrivial? A typical user writes the SSID and PSK to the config file and 
that's all. And add the wireless interface to ifplugd's configuration like 
all wired interfaces. Not nontrivial in my opinion. 

> requires a lot of tweaks and integration into the specific package
> combimation used on the target system, and there is little we can do on
> the packaging site to provide a suitable default configuration.

No default configuration. Just /etc/default/wpasupplicant with the following 
line:
# you must have a valid configuration when activating this
STANDALONE=yes

The default can be the new approach. 

regards,
Jörg