Bug 201712 – net-wireless/madwifi-ng should force hostapd recompile on upgrade

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description M. B. 2007-12-08 19:10:34 UTC]

On remerge of hostap it states the following warning: "This package compiles against the headers installed by madwifi-old, madwifi-ng or madwifi-ng-tools. You should remerge hostapd after upgrading these packages."

Personal experience: When failing to do so it *might* fail starting up properly on the next reboot. I therefore request adding a "hostap" flag to madwifi-ng which enables a recompile of hostapd after madwifi-ng has been emerged, which in turn is, for example, implied by every kernel-upgrade.

[Comment 1 M. B. 2007-12-08 19:11:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> On remerge of hostap it states the following warning:

"it" meaning madwifi-ng.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-08 19:22:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I therefore request adding a "hostap" flag to madwifi-ng
> which enables a recompile of hostapd after madwifi-ng has been emerged, which
> in turn is, for example, implied by every kernel-upgrade.

Cannot do any such thing, you cannot force recompile of anything on upgrade from ebuild.

There's a duplicate portage but which I can't find, marking this CANTFIX.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-08 20:00:41 UTC]

Dupe of Bug 192319.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-08 20:01:06 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192319 ***