Bug 10643 – wishing a new version of kismet (2.6.x) and bugs in the current ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-12 15:12:58 UTC]

kismet is now at version 2.6.x  the ebuild is 2.4.x (outdated).
furthermore the ebuild installs kismet.conf in /etc/ but kismet is searching it
in /usr/etc/ so the program fails to start

bye

[Comment 1 Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-14 11:15:47 UTC]

kismet doesn't require ethereal source code (it is only optional) so the tar.gz
should be downloaded only if USE="ethereal" is enabled.

and if it is enabled, ethereal doesn't need to be compiled !! it takes so much
to compile... kismet only need the source code.

bye

[Comment 2 Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-14 11:25:46 UTC]

ooppss... looking better... it needs wiretap to be compiled...

btw it should be optional since kismet has a local dumper (at lease in 2.6.x
version)

bye

[Comment 3 Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-15 03:02:41 UTC]

I'm making the ebuild for kismet-2.6.2.  I will post it in a couple of hours.

[Comment 4 Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-15 05:23:02 UTC]

Created attachment 5682 [details]
kismet 2.6.2 ebuild

this is the kismet 2.6.2 ebuild.

the do_ethereal_wiretap() fuction is quite ugly, but I don't know to download a
source conditionally (depend on USE="ethereal")

bye

[Comment 5 Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-15 07:00:55 UTC]

Created attachment 5685 [details]
fixed version (do not use the previous one)

even ./scripts/* must be patched to find the kismet.conf in /etc/kismet

this should be ok.  please insert in the official portage tree.

bye

[Comment 6 Alberto Ornaghi 2002-11-15 07:34:49 UTC]

Created attachment 5688 [details]
at least the good one...

sorry, it is my first ebuild...

now i've tested it, it should be ok.

[Comment 7 Jared H. Hudson (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 13:34:21 UTC]

kismet updated to 2.6.2