FS#38075 - [archiso] remove wireless_tools

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Monday, 09 December 2013, 13:54 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 18 January 2016, 04:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

iw provides the same functionality as the deprecated[1] wireless_tools and is already present on installation media (via crda). Can we drop wireless_tools from the medium?

[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Monday, 18 January 2016, 04:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  until wireless_tools gets removed from repos.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 06:40 GMT
if "iw" provides the same functionally maybe you can ask to remove wireless_tools from repos ;)

@Gaetan: any opinion here? Thanks.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 07:22 GMT
wireless_tools is still required by quite a few packages: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/wireless_tools/

In theory someone could port them to iw, sure, but it's not a trivial job: the arguments and output of many programs are different...
Comment by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 08:58 GMT
Indeed: there are still a few packages depending on wireless_tools in the repositories. It might be too soon to drop it completely.

On the ISO however, there are no packages depending on it, so I don't think we need to keep it on there.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 09:36 GMT
Agreed, wireless_tools and wext need to die. All (and more) functionality is provided by wpa_supplicant and iw.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Saturday, 04 January 2014, 18:20 GMT
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2014-January/003337.html

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