[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#622247: Bug#622247: iw binary should be installed in /sbin

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Monday 11 April 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: iw
> Version: 0.9.19-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> iw may be wanted early during the boot process, so it should not be
> installed on /usr.
[...]

While I understand (and share) the reasoning, it's not possible to move
iw to /sbin/ as long as libnl1 is in /usr/lib/libnl.so.1.

$ ldd /usr/sbin/iw 
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff1a3ff000)
        libnl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnl.so.1 (0x00007f7e63c0c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7e638aa000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7e63627000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7e63e74000)

and libnl1 provides the core functionality to talk with nl80211.

For now it will be necessary to delay acting upon regulatory events 
until /usr/ becomes available, like
	http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-wpa/crda/trunk/debian/setregdomain

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann