Bug 213023

Summary:	net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.6.3 - add debugging support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Adrian Bassett <Adrian.Bassett>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mobile Herd (OBSOLETE) <mobile+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	rbu
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Adrian Bassett 2008-03-11 10:03:31 UTC

I know that net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.6.3 is both new to portage as well as being hard-masked, currently.

However, it (and predecessors in both the stable and development streams of this application) has a feature of supporting debug log to a file.  I have found this useful, having enabled it in my own versions of the ebuilds.

It is enabled by adding 

echo "CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE=y"         >> .config

to the relevant ebuild and activated by '-f <logpath>' at runtime.

It would be useful to have this available so that diagnostic logging can all be trapped, and in one place as well.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-19 13:02:16 UTC

I have added USE=debug in =net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.6.4, that enables this feature. Thanks for the bug report.

Comment 2 Adrian Bassett 2008-08-21 09:52:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I have added USE=debug in =net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.6.4, that enables this
> feature. Thanks for the bug report.
> 

Thanks for doing that.  It's useful to have this feature in the ebuild instead of my local version.