Bug#412179: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#412179: D-Bus interface

[Michael Biebl]

Kel Modderman wrote:
>>
>> Maybe it would make sense to provide a /etc/default/wpasupplicant with a
>> var DAEMON_START or the like which defaults to 0. The D-Bus init script
>> would check this var and so it would be easy to enable/disable the D-Bus
>> service.
> 
> Ok. In the future, how would we make sure that NetworkManager "JustWorks" (as 
> is their philosphy on homepage) when the backend it depends on, 
> wpa_supplicant, is disabled by default?

see below

> Will the user be presented with an obtuse error message by NetworkManager 
> indicating that the wpa_supplicant interface is not available and be forced 
> into editing one or more config files to get it working?
> 
>> IIRC avahi-daemon does it similar.
> 
> Ok. 
> 
> # 0 = don't start, 1 = start
> AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1
> 
> To suggest an answer to my pesky questions above, would could ship a conffile 
> similar to this now, but disabled, and when networkmanager 0.7.X is in the 
> archive "flip the switch" and upload new wpasupplicant with conffile set to 
> activate wpa_supplicant dbus daemon by default.

Yeah, this would be one possibility and I had something like this in my
mind initially. We'd just have to coordinate the releases somehow when
NM 0.7 is officially released (maybe a versioned dependency on
wpasupplicant with the switch on would be an option).

Another possible solution I see, is to ship the dbus related files
(/etc/dbus-1/event.d/*, /etc/dbus-1/system.d/* and
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/) in a separate package, let's call it
wpasupplicant-dbus, and network-manager 0.7 would then depend on this
package.
The question is, if a separate package for 3 small text files is justified.

>> With no application using the D-Bus interface atm. (NM 0.7 will still
>> take some time to be released) I think people would complain if we start
>> wpa_supplicant by default.
> 
> Ack. I would complain ;-)

I feared so ;-)

Cheers,
Michael


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