Le Monday 14 February 2011 21:10:45, vous avez écrit : > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:59:40 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I am sorry to reopen this bug but IMHO the fix is not sufficient, see > > below. (private data borkled, huh). > > I think too the fix is not ideal, but it's the quickest I can achieve at > this moment.
Well… We are at the beginning of a developement period; don't aim for the
quickiest, but for the best !
> I'm part of the upstream team since a month or so, and I'm working on a
> complete rewrite of wicd; so I'd be a bit reluctant to fix "structural"
> bugs like this, which would involve some radical change :-)
Nice.
> However, I'll give it a better try.
Cool.
> Much of the diff you attached is caused by #568326, I'm sorry.
No problem, as long as there is a bug and you are willing to get it fixed
before
Wheezy's freeze.
> The only relevant change is, IMHO:
> > -bssid = B4:14:89:D0:31:E3
> > +bssid = B4:14:89:83:F9:B3
>
> Why is this happening? Multiple APs with same ESSID?
I happen to connect my laptop on my university's WiFi, which has ~600 APs which
all provide 3 ESSIDs…
> Other than that, I see nothing "unsuitable" for /etc/. Consider this
> snippet of
>
> a newly-found network:
> > +[B4:14:89:83:F9:B0]
> > +afterscript = None
> > +bssid = B4:14:89:83:F9:B0
> > +encryption = True
> > +has_profile = False
> > +encryption_method = WPA2
> > +essid = epfl
> > +postdisconnectscript = None
> > +beforescript = None
> > +hidden = False
> > +predisconnectscript = None
> > +channel = 1
> > +mode = Master
>
> Those are reasonable things to be kept under /etc/, I'd say.
I disagree. If it is not something I (as user with "root" rights) have manually
entered, it's not suitable. As told above, if I happen to walk around with my
WiFi on, I will encounter 100's of APs, which will all land in /etc/ while I
haven't configured anything to connect to them.
> Maybe "channel" can change, but it doesn't change that often, and it's needed
> for connection, so I'd keep it too.
>
> Here's my proposal: let's drop all the networks with "has_profile = False"
> (and let's drop "has_profile" too altogether). Sounds ok?
Honestly, I really think that /etc/ should be kept for "root user" hand
configuration. All the network configurations I hand to wicd trough non-root
GUIs have (IMHO) nothing to do in /etc/ but can perfectly live in
/var/lib/wicd/${USER}/configs/${ESSID} .
As a personal "crash test", I consider one should be able to run Debian with
/etc mounted readonly (I know it will fail due to /etc/resolv.conf, etc, but
those are bugs too IMHO).
Furthermore, my /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf has ~ 4000 lines; it's
absolutely not suitable to be edited by hand.
Bye, OdyX
--
Didier Raboud, proud Debian Developer.
CH-1020 Renens
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