[pkg-wpa-devel] Fwd: Packaging crda and wireless-regdb

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:16:07 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
>> >> Tim -- any chance we can split wireless-regdb and crda in Ubuntu? Also
>> >> can we work towards getting these into Debian?
>> >>
>> >> What about iw? Anyone have that covered yet?
>> >
>> > Yeah, it's in Debian experimental already.
>>
>> Then this means debian unstable may get this soon?
>
> iw should be in unstable very soon now, as the upload was done and building
> seems to be going well on most of the archs.
>
> As a side note, you mentioned Ubuntu is grouping crda and wireless-regdb into
> same package build. Some text on IRC leads me to believe that John Linville
> does the same [0]. This makes me want to ask, is the upstream split of these
> softwares really serving the purpose of being more convenient for future
> updates?
>
> Thanks, Kel.
>
> [0] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/crda-1.0.1_2009.01.30-4.fc11.src.rpm

CC'ing John. Its my understanding that John packages it together so he
can use a dynamic priv key built on the fly therefore satisfying
Fedora's package requirements.

This doesn't mean though that other distributions like Gentoo won't
use separate packages. It seem that if you are stuck with those rules
John's practice seems suitable.

John -- any particular reason your pubkey is deleted as well from
crda/pubkeys? Is that a Fedora requirement as well? CRDA can have
multiple keys there in that directory therefore if you leave that one
people can use either Fedora's wireless-regdb or the one from
wireless.kernel.org.

  Luis