[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#700870: Bug#700870: building eapol_test

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On 2016-03-24, Christopher Hoskin wrote:
> Hello, I've been doing some work on the upstream FreeRADIUS 3 Debian
> package, with a view to eventually getting it accepted into Debian (Bug
> #797181).
> 
> https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Amans0954
> 
> I'm currently looking at enabling build and autopkgtest tests. Upstream
> have some tests which make use of eapol_test.
> 
> If eapol_test isn't available on the system, the upstream script clones the
> upstream hostap repository and builds it. This isn't appropriate for a
> Debian package. Including enough of the hostap source within the FreeRADIUS
> Debian package to build eapol_test would not be ideal.
> 
> Therefore, I'd also like to request that Matthew Newton's patch is applied,
> so that the proposed eapoltest package can be specified as a build
> dependency of FreeRADIUS. The patch appears to apply and build against the
> latest wpa source package trunk (on amd64 at least).
> 
> Please, would this be possible?

Just a very quick/ short preliminary response, in general I'm not 
exactly thrilled about adding this -considering my build issues with 
eapol_test in previous src:wpa versions- but I haven't actually 
revisited this particular question recently.

*If* eapol_test builds with v2.3, v2.4, v2.5 and hostapd HEAD without 
having to fix bugs in the upstream code (I haven't tested this yet), I 
could be convinced to add this functionality (well, v2.5 and HEAD would
be more important than the previous versions) to src:wpa, but if this
would still be a 'constant' source for build issues (demonstrating that 
this isn't actually tested by upstream - last time I looked into it, 
the build issues were trivial, but quite numerous), I'd tend towards
declining this (however, if there'd be an src:wpa co-maintainer who'd 
take care of this aspect...). Have you checked buildability recently?

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/attachments/20160324/27207505/attachment.sig>