Re: crda packaging

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:40:58AM -0800, Davide Pesavento wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 23:21, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> > <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:58:43PM -0800, Davide Pesavento wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 02:28, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Davide Pesavento <davidepesa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Do you think the regulatory database should be split from the package
> >>> >> that contains the crda daemon? If so, regulatory.bin should be
> >>> >> versioned as well...
> >>> >
> >>> > Yes, absolutely, the idea is to split db.txt into a separate git tree
> >>> > too actually so that should help with keeping track of changes
> >>> > separately and thinking of them separately.
> >>> >
> >>> > We just need to get this git tree created. What crda will need though
> >>> > is to wget the RSA public key so it can be built with support for new
> >>> > arbitrary updates to the binary db. Give us a few days, we'll get this
> >>> > setup.
> >>> >
> >>> >  Luis
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Any updates on this?
> >>
> >> I think we'll have this done by the end of the day.
> >
> > OK this is now done. We have a new git tree which John maintains for
> > the database:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-regdb.git
> >
> > All you need from that is the regulatory.bin, you don't need to run
> > make or anything, just cp the regulatory.bin to the preferred
> > location. Right now this is built into CRDA and its
> > /usr/lib/crda/regulatory.bin.
> >
> > Then do a git pull on crda and try to build and let us know if you run
> > into any issues for packaging. The documentation on the
> > wireless.kernel.org wiki needs some good updating.
> >
> >  Luis
> >
> 
> Great! Thanks a lot!
> Are there any tarballs around? I couldn't find them on
> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...

I was working on that and now I'm done, heh. I'll send a new post
announcing these URLs.

  Luis