[pkg-fso-maint] install.sh: WiFi configuration (was Re: [pkg-fso-commits] [SCM] Various non-packaged files branch, master, updated. d01a461083d18e8fd08fae1ec658b2086a9b6cb5)

[Luca Capello]

Hi Steffen!

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:32:05 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> commit ea08bb4de987ae604ff053c443da6594f32c2443
> Author: Steffen Moeller <moeller at debian.org>
> Date:   Sun Mar 8 14:39:45 2009 +0100
>
>     mv wifi configuration to task WIFI
>     
>     The wpa-supplicant setup is currently performed within
>     the regular configuration target. This seemed wrong.
>     It is now moved under the task WIFI where also wicd
>     is installed.

This is IMHO plain wrong: wpa-supplicant and wicd are two different
things:

- someone (like me) would like to have the first and not the other

- the first was automatic *if* wpa-supplicant was already configured on
  the host system (thus the OS on NAND), with the idea that Debian
  should have mimic the host configuration; the second is something the
  user should ask for

>  # internal variables
> +	WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF
> +                     local configuration which to transfer to neo
> +                     (set to '$WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF')

I do not see the point in offering this option, since by default both
upstream (i.e. OM and FSO) and Debian use the same location, i.e.
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.  This IMHO adds complexity.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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