Your message dated Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:47:53 +0100
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and subject line Re: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#776338: wpa: wpasupplicant-udeb
missing from kfreebsd installation media
has caused the Debian Bug report #776338,
regarding wpa: wpasupplicant-udeb missing from kfreebsd installation media
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package: src:wpa
version: 2.3-1
severity: important
tags: patch
Hi,
The kfreebsd installation media currently lack wpa support. Here is a
patch that adds support for building the udeb.
Best wishes,
Mike
diff -Nru wpa-2.3/debian/changelog wpa-2.3/debian/changelog
--- wpa-2.3/debian/changelog 2014-10-14 19:30:29.000000000 +0000
+++ wpa-2.3/debian/changelog 2015-01-27 00:51:27.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+wpa (2.3-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Build wpasupplicant-udeb for kfreebsd.
+
+ -- Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:43:20 +0000
+
wpa (2.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release:
diff -Nru wpa-2.3/debian/control wpa-2.3/debian/control
--- wpa-2.3/debian/control 2014-09-18 04:28:20.000000000 +0000
+++ wpa-2.3/debian/control 2015-01-27 00:44:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
association with IEEE 802.11i networks.
Package: wpasupplicant-udeb
-Architecture: linux-any
+Architecture: linux-any kfreebsd-any
Section: debian-installer
Priority: standard
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
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tags -1 - patch
Hi
On 2015-01-26 19:52:54, Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> package: src:wpa
> version: 2.3-1
> severity: important
> tags: patch
>
> Hi,
>
> The kfreebsd installation media currently lack wpa support. Here is a
> patch that adds support for building the udeb.
I'm closing this bug, as your patch doesn't -and can't- work (anytime
soon). Please don't inflate the bug severity, this would be a request
for a new feature, not a bug.
In order to work, wpasupplicant requires either libnl or libpcap.
libnl is linux-any (it requires the nl80211 interface of the linux
kernel), therefore wpasupplicant uses libpcap on kfreebsd-any,
which however doesn't provide a udeb. If I'd take your patch
as-is, the kfreebsd-any wpasupplicant udeb would therefore gain a
dependency on the non-existing package libpcap0.8-udeb (instant RC
bug and introducing a new package at this time in the jessie
freeze is certainly not appreciated by the release team or the d-i
maintainers). So the first step here would be to get libpcap to
provide a udeb, at least on kfreebsd-any.
The next step is d-i, or technically netcfg, itself, which only
provides support for scanning via wext (wireless extension), a
deprecated kernel-userspace API of the linux kernel. As kfreebsd,
to the best of my knowledge, doesn't emulate this API to
userspace, netcfg would need to gain support for the native
kfreebsd wlan interfaces - and ideally for linux' new nl80211 API
as well. The same goes for actually managing the interface from
within netcfg. If I remember correctly, Kel Modderman did
originally suggest an alternative way to scan via wpasupplicant
(and thereby to abstract (most of, at least for scanning) the
wlan interface handling from netcfg), rather than making it
depend on the deprecated wext Linux API, but netcfg chose a
different way.
I'd be happy to provide a udeb on kfreebsd-any as well, but
these kfreebsd specific issues need to be solved first. Feel
free to re-open this bug (or to file a new one), once this
has been resolved and tested - or has at least reached the
planning state for stretch.
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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