bug#373: bug#373: should programmaticaly detect wireless extension version
Nate Riffe <[email protected]> Thu, 1 May 2003 20:06:36 -0500
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Just now Nick Moffitt made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this: > package: wireless-tools > severity: wishlist > > We currently hand-force the version of the wireless extensions with: > > FORCE_WEXT_VERSION = 12 > > We should grab it from the kernel/linux source here: > > ./include/linux/wireless.h:#define WIRELESS_EXT 13 > > This will likely mean a SRCDEP and so forth. We're currently just > keeping it up to date, but that's not the right way. INkblot may know > the best way to do this. No. This is definitely *not* a case for SOURCEPKG. What it should do is have a dep on kernel-headers, probably just a regular DEPENDS. And then kernel/linux/package-api.mk should define something like KERNEL_WIRELESS_EXT which is some shell-fu wrapped in a $(shell ...) make doodad. It should get the value from the installed header. -- --< ((\))< >----< [email protected] >----< http://www.movealong.org/ >-- The general miseducation of the population of the United States has led to a reassertion of simple platitudes as political discourse. pub 1024D/05A058E0 2002-03-07 Nate Riffe (06-Mar-2002) <[email protected]> Key fingerprint = 0DAC F5CB D182 3165 D757 C466 CD42 12A8 05A0 58E0