[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: hostapd is in pkg-wpa trunk, and svn commit notifications have been setup

[Kel Modderman]

Looks like i sent last mail via different account . . . sorry for any 
confusion.

Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>>    * upgraded but totally ignored the changes to conffiles, the service
>>      started just as it used to (using /etc/hostapd.conf when no others
>>      were specified), with the exception that it now creates a pidfile
>>     
> I'd really like to see Jouni commenting on this patch before uploading
> it to Debian. I know it's trivial, but I think we shouldn't derive from
> upstream for no good reason. Past experience has showed that Jouni
> comments on the mailing list in batches, so we just have to wait a bit.
>   

Ack.

My only concern is he may want rel2abs_path() used on the pidfile optarg.

I have indeed noticed he replies in large "batches".

> Are you going to do more work on 0.5.4-1?

I may add some extra useful comments to /etc/default/hostapd such as 
useful options to use in DAEMON_OPTIONS and an example 
multi-configuration DAEMON_CONF line.

>  If not, I am going to upload
> this as soon as Jouni reviews your pid patch.
>
>   

We can do one of two things:

   1. wait for pidfile patch review, upload
   2. revert pidfile related stuff (it is far less important than, and
      does not impact on the other changes at all) and upload, wait for
      pidfile stuff to be merged into 0.5.5 (if accepted)

IMHO, I don't think we should let that hold things up. If that's the 
_only_ hold back, I'd prefer to revert all pidfile related stuff, and 
wait for implementation upstream => option #2.

Thanks, Kel.