[gentoo-dev] wireless-tools/wpa_supplicant moves to /

[gentoo-dev] wireless-tools/wpa_supplicant moves to /

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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Hi all,

Just a quick heads-up that starting with baselayout-1.11.13 and the
revision bumps I just committed for net-wireless/wireless-tools and
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant, those utilities will install to / instead
of /usr/, allowing people to mount /usr over an IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN
(bug #96654).

Any applications that have hard-coded paths to either the wireless-tools
or the wpa_supplicant binaries will have to be changed to work with this
change.

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd

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Re: [gentoo-dev] wireless-tools/wpa_supplicant moves to /

[Ned Ludd]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:27 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a quick heads-up that starting with baselayout-1.11.13 and the
> revision bumps I just committed for net-wireless/wireless-tools and
> net-wireless/wpa_supplicant, those utilities will install to / instead
> of /usr/, allowing people to mount /usr over an IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN
> (bug #96654).
> 


> Any applications that have hard-coded paths to either the wireless-tools
> or the wpa_supplicant binaries will have to be changed to work with this
> change.

Why not just make symlinks in /usr so this is transparent to everybody?


> 
> Regards,
> Brix
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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>

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