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Bug#: 96654
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Mobile Herd <mobile@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Ian Donaldson <ian@exidy.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2005-06-20 18:30 0000 
I think wireless-tools should install to /sbin and /lib, rather than /usr/sbin
and /usr/lib. Why? For the 
same reason ifconfig goes in /sbin - so that we can boot a system and then
mount /usr over NFS. It 
should be possible to do this over a wireless interface as well, but without
iwconfig, we can't set our 
channel/SSID/WEP key etc.

For what it's worth, Debian installs wireless-tools to /sbin, and the
associated libiw27 to /lib.

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------- Comment #1 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-21 03:57:22 0000 ------- 
While I agree that it might make sense for some use cases, this is not as
trivial as it might sound since >=baselayout-1.11 has the path to the iw* tools
hardcoded in /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig.

Roy, what do you think? Is this change doable?

------- Comment #2 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-13 11:16:24 0000 ------- 
Fixed.

------- Comment #3 From Maximilian Grothusmann 2005-07-15 10:04:54 0000 ------- 
/usr/sbin/ifrename is also hardcoded in /etc/hotplug/net.agent, lines 56/58.

------- Comment #4 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-18 05:26:29 0000 ------- 
Thanks - this will need to be taken care off as well.

------- Comment #5 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-19 11:36:00 0000 ------- 
Fixed in sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r1.
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