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

Felix Homann fexpop at onlinehome.de
Tue May 2 12:56:58 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 02 May 2006 14:05, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:34:31PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> >>> We could surely keep the conffile in place, but would this really fix
> >>> the issue?
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Ok, good point. Perhaps we should leave the wpa_supplicant.conf in
> > place, so that custom scripts will stind find it. However I think this
> > is a quite seldom cornercase, and I highly doubt this would satisfy the
> > submitter.

Of course this would satisfy the submitter. Why do you (Reinhard) think I 
suggested this solution?

> Well, lets wait and see if this would indeed satisfy Felix' bug report,
> from Felix himself.

Thanks Kel!

And just in case Reinhard did not understand: If you 
leave /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf in place on upgrades I regard the issue I 
reported in Bug#365613 as fixed!

Kind regards,

Felix




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