[pkg-wpa-devel] Fwd: Packaging crda and wireless-regdb

[Kel Modderman]

On Monday 09 February 2009 07:57:00 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:16:07 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
> >> >> Tim -- any chance we can split wireless-regdb and crda in Ubuntu? Also
> >> >> can we work towards getting these into Debian?
> >> >>
> >> >> What about iw? Anyone have that covered yet?
> >> >
> >> > Yeah, it's in Debian experimental already.
> >>
> >> Then this means debian unstable may get this soon?
> >
> > iw should be in unstable very soon now, as the upload was done and building
> > seems to be going well on most of the archs.
> >
> > As a side note, you mentioned Ubuntu is grouping crda and wireless-regdb into
> > same package build. Some text on IRC leads me to believe that John Linville
> > does the same [0]. This makes me want to ask, is the upstream split of these
> > softwares really serving the purpose of being more convenient for future
> > updates?
> >
> > Thanks, Kel.
> >
> > [0] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/crda-1.0.1_2009.01.30-4.fc11.src.rpm
> 
> CC'ing John. Its my understanding that John packages it together so he
> can use a dynamic priv key built on the fly therefore satisfying
> Fedora's package requirements.
> 
> This doesn't mean though that other distributions like Gentoo won't
> use separate packages. It seem that if you are stuck with those rules
> John's practice seems suitable.

Have a look at src_compile() function of [0]. It is another example of why
the current build system is hard to work with at the distribution level.

Thanks, Kel.

[0] http://mirrors.gigenet.com/gentoo/net-wireless/wireless-regdb/wireless-regdb-20081117.ebuild