596152 – net-misc/wicd should RDEPEND on net-wireless/rfkill

Bug 596152 - net-misc/wicd should RDEPEND on net-wireless/rfkill

Summary: net-misc/wicd should RDEPEND on net-wireless/rfkill

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Thomas Kahle (RETIRED)

URL:	https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/...
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Keywords:	KEYWORDREQ

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Blocks:

Reported:	2016-10-04 15:14 UTC by Coacher
Modified:	2016-10-06 05:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Coacher 2016-10-04 15:14:01 UTC

Hello.

wicd-client has 'Switch Off Wi-Fi' button, which doesn't work unless rfkill is installed. I can also see in '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.py' that wicd calls rfkill.

Sorry, I don't know or care if this affects wicd-curses or wicd daemon itself.

Please fix.

Comment 1 Thomas Kahle (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-10-04 20:24:22 UTC

Good point.  Thanks for the report.  One problem is that rfkill does not have ppc and ppc64 keywords while  wicd does.  

@ppc @ppc64, could you add keywords to net-wireless/rfkill ?

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-10-05 19:35:13 UTC

Stable for PPC PPC64.

Comment 3 Thomas Kahle (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-10-05 20:51:28 UTC

For now I've added a RDEPEND on rfkill, although I'm not 100% sure it's right.  Maybe a useflag would be better, as wicd works fine without rfkill (just the button won't work).  But maybe it would be overkill... 
- Also note that the button is also in the ncurses interface.
- See also linked launchpad bug.

Comment 4 Coacher 2016-10-06 05:38:57 UTC

Thank you very much.