iw package (Was: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda)

2010-03-04 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, BTW -- while we're on the topic of 2.6.32 and the next Debian release, and 802.11, do you guys ship iw by default yet? If not I highly encourage it. It should be shipped just as iwconfig is shipped. iw is the replacement for iwconfig, it uses the new nl80211 and nl80211 is used by all

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 04:44 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs. Perhaps we could ask Johannes to do something in his scripts that create them? Beyond that I don't see much point in checking-in a ChangeLog. It definitely shouldn't be checked into git, but rather

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:43:46PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I'd suggest that 'make dist' should include a ChangeLog file in the tarball, generated with git2cl or git log or whatever. A NEWS file summarising the user-visible changes in each version would also be a good idea for

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs.  Perhaps we could ask Johannes to do something in his scripts that create them?  Beyond that I don't see much point in checking-in a

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Kel Modderman k...@otaku42.de wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2010 04:13:25 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs.  

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Kel Modderman
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 04:13:25 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs. Perhaps we could ask Johannes to do something in his scripts that

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e. Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional. I agree with Kel here, git2cl et al are unimportant details.

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 04:44 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e. Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional.

[RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Adding debian-devel and debian-mentors. As per Paul Wise' advice I'd like to request for help with the crda/wireless-regdb package for Debian for the next release of Debian. I am the upstream crda maintainer and John Linville is the upstream wireless-regdb maintainer. Kel Modderman has already

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: As per Paul Wise' advice I'd like to request for help with the crda/wireless-regdb package for Debian for the next release of Debian. I am the upstream crda maintainer and John Linville is the upstream wireless-regdb maintainer. Kel Modderman has already done most work

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:59 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: I'm a member of pkg-wpa-devel and I've been sponsoring Kel for almost 4 years. I have absolute trust in him and I've even offered to advocate him to the NM process multiple times. I'd definitely agree with your assessment here and

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:19 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Upstream does not do the same. Ubuntu packages these two together right now but it was because it made life easier for packaging. John, do you guys package wireless-regdb and crda together on Fedora land? Was this because of the

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 15:11 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: And after reviewing this again, I conclude Kel already did all the work :) So any mentors / DDs willing to take his package up? I think its at: dget -ux

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-18 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:19:06AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: I don't really like that it merges the two packages. I don't think that is appropriate unless upstream is going to do the same. Upstream does not do the

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:14 AM, John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:19:06AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: I don't really like that it merges the two packages. I don't think that is

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez mcg...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Kel Modderman k...@otaku42.de wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:42:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez mcg...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez mcg...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Kel Modderman k...@otaku42.de wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:42:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Feb

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 15:11 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: And after reviewing this again, I conclude Kel already did all the work :) So any mentors / DDs willing to take his package up? I think its at: dget -ux http://sidux.net/kelmo/sidux/crap/crda/crda_1.1.1-1.dsc Ok, here are my

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-04 Thread Kel Modderman
On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:42:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 09:58 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I can help with this only if no one else is up for it. I personally however find building a key on

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-04 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Kel Modderman k...@otaku42.de wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:42:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 09:58 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I can help with this only if no

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-04 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:25:53PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Also, it seems that the REGDB_CHANGED stuff in wireless-regdb/Makefile does not work as expected - the sha1sum.txt file possibly contains the hash from an old db.txt Yeah, John -- can you please run: sha1sum

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-04 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:43 PM, John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:25:53PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Also, it seems that the REGDB_CHANGED stuff in wireless-regdb/Makefile does not work as expected - the sha1sum.txt file possibly contains the

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 09:58 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I can help with this only if no one else is up for it. I personally however find building a key on the fly for each build pretty pointless and would like to know if a

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:54 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Given the OpenSSL stuff in crda 1.1.1, I don't think there are any technical roadblocks before crda/wireless-regdb can be uploaded to Debian (once the packaging

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 09:58 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I can help with this only if no one else is up for it. I personally however find building a key on the fly for each build pretty pointless and would like to know if a package would be acceptable upstream on Debian if OpenSSL is used

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-29 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: [Please keep me in CC for this thread] There is a technical change coming in Debian that may mean one key for the pkg-wpa folks will be more problematic; it is planned that maintainer-built .debs are to be thrown away on upload

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:54 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Exactly, this is already taken care of upstream with OpenSSL. The default directory is /etc/wireless-regdb/pubkeys/ Excellent. Patches for this are welcomed upstream on CRDA. Is this a requirement for Debian to package CRDA? No,

Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Hey folks, I wanted to try to help Debian in ways in which I can with the new regulatory infrastructure upstream on the Linux kernel. As of recent (= 2.6.34) the old regulatory stuff has been deprecated and replaced completely for CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB, the old regulatory framework was also

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-28 Thread Kel Modderman
On Friday 29 January 2010 04:10:04 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I asked Kel Modderman [3] about the packages and it seems he is really busy with quite a few moves he has been doing and just lacks time to get wireless-regdb and crda packaged into Debian. I am the upstream CRDA maintainer and have

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 06:11:50AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: There are potentially lots of people who could be building/uploading these packages and having the same private key for all people to sign regulatory.bin may not be feasible. Generating a one time private key requires that

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
[Please keep me in CC for this thread] There is a technical change coming in Debian that may mean one key for the pkg-wpa folks will be more problematic; it is planned that maintainer-built .debs are to be thrown away on upload (but still required) and all packages rebuilt on the buildds. There

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:57 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: * wireless-regdb could check at build time if the source database has been modified and a new binary database been rebuilt * If so * generate a new temporary key at build time