On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Kel Modderman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:42:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> 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 package would be acceptable upstream on >>>> >> Debian if OpenSSL is used to allow administrators to add their own >>>> >> keys into the /etc/wireless-regdb/pubkeys/ dir for CRDA and from the >>>> >> start only trust John's key. >>>> > >>>> > As part of upstream, you're probably the best person to do the packaging >>>> > stuff for Debian. >>>> >>>> OK, in that case here is my first shot at this. >>>> >>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/wireless-regdb/debs/ >>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/crda/debs/ >>>> >>>> Tim -- notice both packages have a Replaces: wireless-crda. If debian >>>> upstreams both packages then I think it would be good to separate the >>>> packages as I am recommending for integration on Debian and for Ubuntu >>>> to also use the same debian packages as debian. I think this would >>>> mean also having the new Ubuntu kernels depend on these new packages >>>> instead of the old wireless-crda. >>>> >>>> The package is very simple, I took what I could from Kel's work but >>>> did leave in the signature check stuff, used openssl and also just >>>> used cdbs. The wireless-regdb does not change *that* often so I do not >>>> expect debian itself to need a custom regulatory database to be >>>> automatically built and propagated so I left all the watch stuff out >>>> and can do manual updates for now, I can commit to that for now. If >>>> that is a requirement however, I am not that familiar with new package >>>> policies and am unclear how to do that. I would prefer if we can get >>>> something started and uploaded for now which at least meets the >>>> requirements for integration into an eventual stable release, but >>>> that's just me. >>>> >>>> Please review and let me know what you think. >>> >>> These demonstrate that most of what I've attempted to explain about the >>> difficulties of getting this software into the Debian software pool in a >>> maintainable form has been taken lightly. >>> >>> To reiterate what I think is most important: >>> The software should be built from its preferable form of modification to >>> produce the resulting binary. >> >> What's the point? >> >>> This helps to make the source package available >>> to other developers to modify and rebuild without invasive packaging >>> changes. >> >> The source will always be available and users can themselves apt-get >> source wireless-regdb and compile their own regdb at any time, just as >> with CRDA. > > I've given this some more thought and while I think it is simply brain > dead to require a build from source to produce a binary with exactly > the same output except the signature I understand that asking for an > exception to rule on Debian based on common sense is still likely more > difficult to address than doing the temporary key thing and building > CRDA and wireless-regdb together as Fedora does. > > I'll give that a shot next on my next break.
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 Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
