[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: hostapd is in pkg-wpa trunk, and svn commit notifications have been setup

[Faidon Liambotis]

Hi,

kelmo wrote:
> Kyle and Reinhard both welcomed you into pkg-wpa, you've been added to
> the group.
Hi guys :) I hope we can cooperate efficiently.
Kel, many thanks for trying for this so hard.

> I've committed hostapd to pkg-wpa SVN trunk, and have begun hacking on
> it to support the issues I raised with you before and a couple more.
> Briefly:
> 
>    * LSB compliant init script
>    * possibility to manage multiple interface/configurations
>    * possibility to use configuration files in local directories (ie,
>      not /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf)
>    * ability to reload the configuration file after modification with
>      HUP signal
Nice work, thankfully I hadn't made any other changes on my tree :-)
As you can see, I already did my first commit.

>    * upgraded but totally ignored the changes to conffiles, the service
>      started just as it used to (using /etc/hostapd.conf when no others
>      were specified), with the exception that it now creates a pidfile
I'd really like to see Jouni commenting on this patch before uploading
it to Debian. I know it's trivial, but I think we shouldn't derive from
upstream for no good reason. Past experience has showed that Jouni
comments on the mailing list in batches, so we just have to wait a bit.

>    * purged, reinstalled
You might want to see piuparts, it helps a lot in this area.

>    * start the service with two custom configuration files, and
>      launched hostapd on my test box with two madwifi access points
>      configured and working well. This would scale to 3 or 4 for those
>      real wifi enthusiasts :-)
Great! I'll test in on a box of my own tomorrow.

>    * was able to reload the configuration file of hostapd on the fly
>      via init script (HUP signal)
Hm, I wonder why wasn't this done a long time ago. Good catch ;-)

Kyle & Reinhard, are you interested in maintaining hostapd?
I am going to add Kel to the uploaders, that's for sure.
But should I "transfer" the maintainership to "Debian/Ubuntu
wpasupplicant/hostapd Maintainers", or should I keep it? What do you think?

Are you going to do more work on 0.5.4-1? If not, I am going to upload
this as soon as Jouni reviews your pid patch.

Thanks again for your work,
Faidon