tags 412179 pending thanks On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:51:46 pm Michael Biebl wrote: > reopen 412179 > tags 412179 patch > thanks > > Hi everyone, > > as the D-Bus system activation support [1] has landed in dbus-1.1.2, > which will be uploaded to the archive (very) soon, it's finally clear, > how the wpa_supplicant dbus support is supposed to work. > You have to install the service file into > /usr/share/dbus-1/system-service and the name of the file must > correspond to the service bus name. > In addition, the service has to be started by root to work properly. > The attached patch fixes these issues. > Whenever a D-Bus client (such as NM 0.7) will try to access > fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant, and the D-Bus name is not yet taken, > the service will be autostarted by dbus. > This also makes any init scripts unnecessary. > > It would be great if you could include this patch in your next revision. > > Cheers, > Michael > > > [1] > http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/doc/system-activation.txt?view=co
Done in pkg-wpa SVN. Good timing, just a few hours before your email I did start a general cleanup of wpasupplicant... I guess the new NetworkManager / D-Bus / wpasupplicant uploads are going to be slightly disruptive to users of that software for a (hopefully) small period of time? Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
