Martin-Éric, I agree with you: "not being able to launch a smartcard- authenticated network connection until /usr is mounted is unacceptable".
Note that libpcsclite.so.1 is not enough. The library talks to a pcscd daemon (from the pcscd package in universe). On Ubuntu the daemon is installed as /usr/sbin/pcscd [1]. So if /usr is not mounted you can't use the smart card framework. The situation is already "unacceptable" in Ubuntu and I have not yet seen a bug reporting this problem. Also note that pcscd needs drivers for readers. These drivers are installed in /usr/lib/pcsc/drivers (for example the CCID driver [2] also in universe). The use of smart card without /usr is _not_ working in Ubuntu right now. The way Ubuntu modified libpcsclite.so.1 has impacts (Ubuntu bug 378294) and generates a support requests on me. [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/i386/pcscd/filelist [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/i386/libccid/filelist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/694847 Title: Please merge pcsc-lite 1.6.6-1 (main) from Debian experimental (main) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
