Re: Fedora crda To wireless-regdb Upgrade

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2018-07-20 20:47 GMT+02:00 John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx>:
[...]
> QUESTIONS
>
> Are there reasons to oppose the Obsolete/Provides upgrade path from
> crda to wireless-regdb? Would it be desirable to require users to
> manually intervene by installing wireless-regdb by hand? FWIW, I do not
> see any benefit from requiring any manual steps.

The main issue with Obsoletes/Provides of crda is that if any user
want to maintain a self compiled kernel < 4.15. Then this kernel will
suddenly loose wireless support whereas it was previously working.
This is also a problem if using various kernel version to bissect a
wireless regression.

What I would recommend instead is to :
- have everything set for wireless-regdb to be installed by default in
f29+ (comps,ks,package dependency).
- eventually obsoletes/provides crda only on f29+
- for fedora < 29 have crda to require wireless-regdb, so current
users will migrate to the new method. (that way they can even manually
remove crda  and keep wireless-regdb if they like to).

This doesn't seem that complicated to handle as a transition that way.

-- 
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Nicolas (kwizart)
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