Package: ieee-data Version: 20131224.1 Severity: wishlist
Hi, I'm considering making aircrack-ng recommend this package and use the data it provides instead of shipping another copy of the same data. My personal experience is that this data changes much more often than one might expect. For example, since you shipped the package to now: $ diff -u /usr/share/misc/oui.txt <(curl -s http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt)|diffstat 63 | 2766 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 2571 insertions(+), 195 deletions(-) In order to keep this data updated, I think that shipping a cronjob that regularly updates it, is a good idea. Maybe shipping it on /etc/cron.weekly (or even /etc/cron.monthly), and it can be something as simple as: #!/bin/sh if ! ping -c1 standards.ieee.org >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then # no internet exit 0 fi update-oui >/dev/null Regards!
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