Bug 96654 – wireless-tools should install to /sbin, /lib

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ian Donaldson 2005-06-20 18:30:31 UTC]

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.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-21 03:57:22 UTC]

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 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-13 11:16:24 UTC]

Fixed.

[Comment 3 Maximilian Grothusmann 2005-07-15 10:04:54 UTC]

/usr/sbin/ifrename is also hardcoded in /etc/hotplug/net.agent, lines 56/58. 

[Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-18 05:26:29 UTC]

Thanks - this will need to be taken care off as well.

[Comment 5 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-07-19 11:36:00 UTC]

Fixed in sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r1.