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and subject line Bug#698348: fixed in b43-fwcutter 1:017-1~experimental1
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regarding Allow unconditional installation without corresponding hardware
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Source: b43-fwcutter
Version: 1:015-14
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Currently the installer scripts abort if no supported hardware is
detected and the package is left unconfigured. IMO this is quite bad as
no serious error prevents the firmware from being installed. There is
also no harm in installing firmware you don't strictly need. After all
by installing the package the user requested that the firmware should be
on his system and IMO it's not nice to second guess what the user really
want's to do. A (debconf) note telling the user that no supported hardware
was found would be nice and sufficient.
Beside this on live systems you actually want to have the firmware
installed all the time so that the live system also works when booted on a
system with a b43 or b43legacy wireless chipset. Forcing the user to do
the installation on a supported system is not nice.
In case you really want to keep the current checks, I attached a patch that
adds a debconf question to the b43-fwcutter package to choose if the
installer packages should install the firmware unconditionally or not.
The question is only asked at medium priority so it should not be shown
in default installs and nothing changes there. The main purpose of the
question is that you can preseed this on live systems. The same question
is used by all installer packages.
Thanks,
Gaudenz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- debconf information excluded
commit 82c1fcb3b9f719f24934d1661210c75067e065c5
Author: Gaudenz Steinlin <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jan 17 11:31:51 2013 +0100
Debconf question to install firmware unconditional
This enables the installer packages to install the firmware even if no
corresponding hardware is present. This is usefull on live systems.
diff --git a/debian/b43-fwcutter.config b/debian/b43-fwcutter.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d3271d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/b43-fwcutter.config
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+
+db_input medium b43-fwcutter/install-unconditional || true
+db_go || true
+
+#DEBHELPER#
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian/b43-fwcutter.postinst b/debian/b43-fwcutter.postinst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe570f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/b43-fwcutter.postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+
+# This script does not use the debconf template.
+# It's only used by the *-installer packages
+
+#DEBHELPER#
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian/b43-fwcutter.templates b/debian/b43-fwcutter.templates
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1b6f3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/b43-fwcutter.templates
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Template: b43-fwcutter/install-unconditional
+Type: boolean
+Default: false
+Description: Install firmware for hardware not present on this system?
+ Should the installer package download and install firmware for hardware
+ that is not currently present on the system. This is useful if you plan
+ to move this installation to different hardware or share the same installation
+ on different systems.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst b/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
index 468a486..409a673 100644
--- a/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
+++ b/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
set -e
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+
tmp=`mktemp -q -d`
latest_firmware ()
@@ -61,6 +63,15 @@ if dpkg --compare-versions 2.6.25 gt `uname -r | cut -d- -f1`; then
exit 0
fi
+# install firmware unconditional if the corresponding debconf value is true
+# this is usefull for live-systems or similar systems that should work on
+# changing hardware
+db_get b43-fwcutter/install-unconditional
+if [ "$RET" = "true" ] ; then
+ latest_firmware
+ exit 0
+fi
+
# Fix for BCM4306/3 [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
chip=`lspci -n | grep -o "14e4:4320 (rev 03)"` || true
diff --git a/debian/firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.postinst b/debian/firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.postinst
index 735b99d..c9b160a 100644
--- a/debian/firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.postinst
+++ b/debian/firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.postinst
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
set -e
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+
tmp=`mktemp -q -d`
latest_firmware ()
@@ -60,6 +62,15 @@ if dpkg --compare-versions 2.6.32 gt `uname -r | cut -d- -f1`; then
exit 0
fi
+# install firmware unconditional if the corresponding debconf value is true
+# this is usefull for live-systems or similar systems that should work on
+# changing hardware
+db_get b43-fwcutter/install-unconditional
+if [ "$RET" = "true" ] ; then
+ latest_firmware
+ exit 0
+fi
+
# check chip
supported=0
pci=`lspci -n | grep -o "14e4:[1234567890abcdef]\+"` || true
diff --git a/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst b/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst
index 0ca5b29..4afbe6b 100644
--- a/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst
+++ b/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
set -e
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+
tmp=`mktemp -q -d`
latest_firmware ()
@@ -49,6 +51,15 @@ if [ "$(stat -c %d/%i /)" != "$(stat -Lc %d/%i /proc/1/root 2>/dev/null)" ];
echo "No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation"
fi
+# install firmware unconditional if the corresponding debconf value is true
+# this is usefull for live-systems or similar systems that should work on
+# changing hardware
+db_get b43-fwcutter/install-unconditional
+if [ "$RET" = "true" ] ; then
+ latest_firmware
+ exit 0
+fi
+
# Fix for BCM4306 [14e4:4320] (rev 02)
chip=`lspci -n | grep -o "14e4:4320 (rev 02)"` || true
if [ "$chip" ] ; then
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: b43-fwcutter
Source-Version: 1:017-1~experimental1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
b43-fwcutter, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Daniel Echeverry <[email protected]> (supplier of updated b43-fwcutter
package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:05:30 -0500
Source: b43-fwcutter
Binary: b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer firmware-b43legacy-installer
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 1:017-1~experimental1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Daniel Echeverry <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Daniel Echeverry <[email protected]>
Description:
b43-fwcutter - Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer - Installer package for firmware for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer - Installer package for firmware for the
b43legacy driver
Closes: 657837 682427 698348 698759
Changes:
b43-fwcutter (1:017-1~experimental1) experimental; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
* New Maintainer. Closes: #698759
* debian/control
+ Set myself as Maintainer.
+ Remove firmware-b43-lpphy-installer package. Closes: #657837
+ Firmware-b43-installer now supports BCM4312.
+ Update firmware-b43-installer description.
+ Change debhelper to 9 in B-D.
+ Bump Standard Versions 3.9.4.
+ Switch compat level 8 to 9.
+ Remove dm-upload field.
+ Remove conflict field.
+ Add po-debconf and debconf in B-D.
* debian/rules
+ Add security Flags.
+ Use tiny rules.
* Remove firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.* files.
* Firmware-b43-installer now support BCM4331. Closes: #682427
* Add debconf support. Thanks to Gaudenz. Closes: #698348
+ Allow installation without corresponding hardware.
+ Add es.po translation.
* Update copyright file.
* Remove debian/series file.
* Update watch file.
* Remove README.firmware-b43-lpphy-installer file.
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