[pkg-wpa-devel] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:42:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 09:58 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >
>> >> I can help with this only if no one else is up for it. I personally
>> >> however find building a key on the fly for each build pretty pointless
>> >> and would like to know if a package would be acceptable upstream on
>> >> Debian if OpenSSL is used to allow administrators to add their own
>> >> keys into the /etc/wireless-regdb/pubkeys/ dir for CRDA and from the
>> >> start only trust John's key.
>> >
>> > As part of upstream, you're probably the best person to do the packaging
>> > stuff for Debian.
>>
>> OK, in that case here is my first shot at this.
>>
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/wireless-regdb/debs/
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/crda/debs/
>>
>> Tim -- notice both packages have a Replaces: wireless-crda. If debian
>> upstreams both packages then I think it would be good to separate the
>> packages as I am recommending for integration on Debian and for Ubuntu
>> to also use the same debian packages as debian. I think this would
>> mean also having the new Ubuntu kernels depend on these new packages
>> instead of the old wireless-crda.
>>
>> The package is very simple, I took what I could from Kel's work but
>> did leave in the signature check stuff, used openssl and also just
>> used cdbs. The wireless-regdb does not change *that* often so I do not
>> expect debian itself to need a custom regulatory database to be
>> automatically built and propagated so I left all the watch stuff out
>> and can do manual updates for now, I can commit to that for now. If
>> that is a requirement however, I am not that familiar with new package
>> policies and am unclear how to do that. I would prefer if we can get
>> something started and uploaded for now which at least meets the
>> requirements for integration into an eventual stable release, but
>> that's just me.
>>
>> Please review and let me know what you think.
>
> These demonstrate that most of what I've attempted to explain about the
> difficulties of getting this software into the Debian software pool in a
> maintainable form has been taken lightly.
>
> To reiterate what I think is most important:
> The software should be built from its preferable form of modification to
> produce the resulting binary.

What's the point?

> This helps to make the source package available
> to other developers to modify and rebuild without invasive packaging changes.

The source will always be available and users can themselves apt-get
source wireless-regdb and compile their own regdb at any time, just as
with CRDA.

> An alternative approach:
> http://sidux.net/kelmo/sidux/crap/crda/crda_1.1.1-1.dsc

I think I must just suck at packaging modern debian packages, can you
elaborate a little on what this adds, I can't tell.

> Also, it seems that the REGDB_CHANGED stuff in wireless-regdb/Makefile does not
> work as expected - the sha1sum.txt file possibly contains the hash from an old
> db.txt

Yeah, John -- can you please run:

sha1sum db.txt > sha1sum.txt

and commit that? Maybe there is a way to add it as a hook to git commit?

  Luis