Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: wpasupplicant: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

[Kel Modderman]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:14:02PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
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>>> Reason: /etc/wpa_suplicant.conf was renamed without warning.
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>>> Solution: Don't rename /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf on upgrade.
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>> Okay, I can agree with this conclusion, somewhat. We are not supplying a 
>> wpa_supplicant.conf by default any more, but should we really rename a 
>> working, personally maintained conffile?
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>
> We could surely keep the conffile in place, but would this really fix
> the issue?
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>   

If you were invoking wpa_supplicant by an own script, pre-up or 
manually, and you expected wpa_supplicant.conf to exist yeah, I reckon 
it would.

Kel.