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 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. > An alternative approach: > http://sidux.net/kelmo/sidux/crap/crda/crda_1.1.1-1.dsc I think I must just suck at packaging modern debian packages, can you elaborate a little on what this adds, I can't tell. > 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 db.txt > sha1sum.txt and commit that? Maybe there is a way to add it as a hook to git commit? Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
