Bug 154862 - baselayout-1.13.0_alpha5,6,7 changed the location wpa_supplicant.conf is read from without mention
Bug#: 154862 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: trivial Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: base-system@gentoo.org Reported By: ikelos@gentoo.org
Component: baselayout
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Summary: baselayout-1.13.0_alpha5,6,7 changed the location wpa_supplicant.conf is read from without mention
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2006-11-12 02:12 0000
Description:   Opened: 2006-11-12 02:12 0000 
Baselayout-1.13.0_alpha5,6,7 now read wpa_supplicant.conf from
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, rather than the
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf which previously used to work.  People using WPA will
then lose their connection without much indication of the problem on reboot. 
Whilst /etc/conf.d/net.example does offer the answer, it wasn't obvious that it
was a wpa_supplicant issue to being with.  The simplest solution seems like a
small einfo/ewarn during postinst...

------- Comment #1 From Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2006-11-12 02:37:31 0000 ------- 
Why not edit /lib/rcscripts/net/wpa_supplicant.conf and read lines 220-226.

You'll see we use config file locations as follows
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-$iface.conf
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf        
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

We use the first one we find. wpa_supplicant has never installed
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, so if it's being used then you created
it.

This is hardly a bug.

------- Comment #2 From Mike Auty 2006-11-12 03:05:39 0000 ------- 
Sorry about that Roy, I've been using wpa_supplicant-0.5.5 since September when
it was released, but hadn't realised that it installs an
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file by default, seems you missed it
too.  With the previous baselayout this wasn't ever a problem, but since it now
causes a problem, I'm not sure how best to fix it other than a postinst
warning.  Can you think of any other solutions?

------- Comment #3 From Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2006-11-12 06:14:26 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry about that Roy, I've been using wpa_supplicant-0.5.5 since September when
> it was released, but hadn't realised that it installs an
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file by default, seems you missed it
> too.  With the previous baselayout this wasn't ever a problem, but since it now
> causes a problem, I'm not sure how best to fix it other than a postinst
> warning.

You're right, I forgot about that. I'll put a notice in the wpa_supplicant
ebuild

Fixed in wpa_supplicant-0.5.5