On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:45:30AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:39:03 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Last time I poked them it seemed it was not easy to figure out how to > > > deal with, if at all, the optional but recommended RSA signature stuff > > > [1] with the DFSG. > > > > > > [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory#RSADigitalSignature > > > > What is the percieved DFSG/RSA conflict? I can't detect any based on > > that section of the page. > > Hi Paul, > > By default the upstream wireless-regdb tarball contains and installs a > pre-built wireless regulatory information binary signed by John Linville's > openssl snakeoil. It is my understanding that in Debian we would prefer to > build the binary from its source code. That presents a problem because CRDA > expects to see John Linville's openssl stuff. One way to work around this > is to munge CRDA and regdb together, generate our own openssl stuff and build > CRDA and wireless-redb at the same time. Another way to go is to do away with > the openssl stuff during build altogether, but Luis doesn't like that, and the > build system's need patching to support it last time I checked. You could also patch-in support for your own signing key, provided that would comply with whatever policies Debian has about signing keys. Hth... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
