Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Package: et131x-source > Version: 1.2.3-4 > Severity: wishlist > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > The custom postinst in et131x seems to be bogus: > if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-devfsd ] ; then > /usr/sbin/update-devfsd 2>/dev/null || true > fi > It is not present in etch/ stable, lenny/ testing or unstable, and only > available in sarge/ oldstable, which might not be a prime candidate for > backports anymore: > $ wget -qO- ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Contents-i386.gz | > zgrep update-devfsd > $ wget -qO- ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Contents-i386.gz > | zgrep update-devfsd > $ wget -qO- ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Contents-i386.gz > | zgrep update-devfsd > $ wget -qO- ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Contents-i386.gz > | zgrep update-devfsd > usr/sbin/update-devfsd admin/devfsd > usr/share/man/man8/update-devfsd.8.gz admin/devfsd > $ > Which is obvious, because etch doesn't ship with any devfs compatible kernel. > >
I agree with this. > While modprobing > modprobe et131x 2>/dev/null || true > the module might not be intended by merely installing a module package in > chroot (and similar) environments or even make debugging more difficult > (modprobing a > new module with debug parameters (et131x_debug_flags, et131x_debug_level, > ...). > Other module packages (especially in the wlan arena) tend not to try this > and leave the insmod to the user or udev (on boot), especially given that it > fails quite often (installing new kernel and module package at the same time, > yes I see that the return value is disregarded anyways). > Here, I don't agree. We must to do to the user to be installations as easy as possible. If you want to do debug, then you know what are you doing, so you don't need to use the built package for your kernel. The target of this package is *users*. As you said, the wlan modules have a lot of parameters (essid, wpa/wep configuration, keys...) that do that it's very difficult it works, but this works in 90% without touch anything (NetworkManager and DHCP helps). > Besides this, there are no further custom modifications to postinst, besides > the automatically added debhelper stanza for depmod. > > Feel free to close this bug report. > Thanks for you report bug! I'll modify the first one in next upload and I'll close this bug then! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
