Bug 593841 - Review Request: wicd - Wireless and wired network connection manager
Summary: Review Request: wicd - Wireless and wired network connection manager
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: leigh scott
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 511204 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 593839
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-19 19:57 UTC by David Cantrell
Modified: 2010-10-25 07:19 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-06-21 18:22:18 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:
leigh123linux: fedora-review+
kevin: fedora-cvs+


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Fix --share (363 bytes, text/plain)
2010-05-27 03:14 UTC, Brian Lane
no flags Details
Fix $retval in init.d/wicd (357 bytes, text/plain)
2010-05-29 03:52 UTC, Brian Lane
no flags Details

Description David Cantrell 2010-05-19 19:57:33 UTC
Spec URL: http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
SRPM URL: http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm
Description:
Wicd is designed to give the user as much control over behavior of network
connections as possible.  Every network, both wired and wireless, has its
own profile with its own configuration options and connection behavior.
Wicd will try to automatically connect only to networks the user specifies
it should try, with a preference first to a wired network, then to wireless.

Purpose:
Wicd is an alternative to NetworkManager for people who want something like NetworkManager, but not requiring GNOME.  It is gaining popularity among non-GNOME users simply because it has multiple clients as opposed to requiring nm-applet for everything.  Wicd is written in Python and provides a daemon and three clients (cli, curses, gtk).  It is not as full-featured as NetworkManager, but for most people it fits the bill.  Especially users wanted to slim down a system or just not run GNOME.

Comment 1 Chen Lei 2010-05-20 09:21:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 511204 ***

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2010-05-20 15:25:12 UTC
*** Bug 511204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 leigh scott 2010-05-20 15:47:33 UTC
I believe you should add the python macro to the spec file if you intend to build for F12.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python#Macros


You don't need the CFLAGS="%{optflags}" as you aren't compiling anything

CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{__python} setup.py configure \
    --pmutils %{_libdir}/pm-utils/sleep.d
CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{__python} setup.py build



Also the srpm doesn't build on F13

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /home/leigh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64
error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/share/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop


RPM build errors:
    user dcantrel does not exist - using root
    group dcantrel does not exist - using root
    user dcantrel does not exist - using root
    group dcantrel does not exist - using root
    user dcantrel does not exist - using root
    group dcantrel does not exist - using root
    File listed twice: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd
    Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/share/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop



This should be changed from


%{python_sitelib}/wicd


to


%dir %{python_sitelib}/wicd
%{python_sitelib}/wicd/*

Comment 4 David Cantrell 2010-05-21 01:03:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I believe you should add the python macro to the spec file if you intend to
> build for F12.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python#Macros

Done.  I don't plan on building wicd for anything below rawhide right now unless people ask for it, but I figure it doesn't hurt to include these macros in the spec file so people can grab the SRPM and rebuild on their own.  I'd just like to get the package in to the distribution now and once we cut F-14 and beyond, we can start including wicd.

> You don't need the CFLAGS="%{optflags}" as you aren't compiling anything
>
> CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{__python} setup.py configure \
>     --pmutils %{_libdir}/pm-utils/sleep.d
> CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{__python} setup.py build

Removed.

> Also the srpm doesn't build on F13
> 
> Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files
> /home/leigh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64
> error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>    /usr/share/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
> 
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     user dcantrel does not exist - using root
>     group dcantrel does not exist - using root
>     user dcantrel does not exist - using root
>     group dcantrel does not exist - using root
>     user dcantrel does not exist - using root
>     group dcantrel does not exist - using root
>     File listed twice: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd
>     Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>    /usr/share/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop

Strange.  I rebuilt on my local F-13 box and it built fine.  I also ran it through as a scratch dist-f13 build in koji:

[fedora] dcantrel@mitre wicd$ koji build --scratch dist-f13 wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm 
Uploading srpm: wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm
[====================================] 100% 00:00:06 406.66 KiB  61.06 KiB/sec
Created task: 2200401
Task info: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2200401
None
Watching tasks (this may be safely interrupted)...
2200401 build (dist-f13, wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm): free
2200401 build (dist-f13, wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm): free -> open (ppc06.phx2.fedoraproject.org)
  2200403 buildArch (wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm, i686): free
  2200402 buildArch (wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm, x86_64): free
  2200402 buildArch (wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm, x86_64): free -> open (x86-07.phx2.fedoraproject.org)
  2200403 buildArch (wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm, i686): free -> open (x86-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org)
  2200402 buildArch (wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm, x86_64): open (x86-07.phx2.fedoraproject.org) -> closed
  0 free  2 open  1 done  0 failed
  2200403 buildArch (wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm, i686): open (x86-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org) -> closed
  0 free  1 open  2 done  0 failed
2200401 build (dist-f13, wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm): open (ppc06.phx2.fedoraproject.org) -> closed
  0 free  0 open  3 done  0 failed

2200401 build (dist-f13, wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm) completed successfully

> This should be changed from
> 
> %{python_sitelib}/wicd
> 
> to
> 
> %dir %{python_sitelib}/wicd
> %{python_sitelib}/wicd/*    

The %dir line for this directory is already listed near the top of the %files list, but I did change the other line to %{python_sitelib}/wicd/*

Thanks for the help!  New spec file and SRPM posted:

Spec URL: http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
SRPM URL: http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm

Comment 5 Chen Lei 2010-05-21 02:31:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I believe you should add the python macro to the spec file if you intend to
> > build for F12.
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python#Macros
> Done.  I don't plan on building wicd for anything below rawhide right now
> unless people ask for it, but I figure it doesn't hurt to include these macros
> in the spec file so people can grab the SRPM and rebuild on their own.  I'd
> just like to get the package in to the distribution now and once we cut F-14
> and beyond, we can start including wicd.

Do you mind me to maintain wicd for F13 and EPEL6? I think we have much more F13 users than rawhide:) .

Comment 6 leigh scott 2010-05-21 03:22:45 UTC
You will need to add some scriptlets for the gtk package.

%files gtk
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets#Icon_Cache


%post gtk
touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :

%postun gtk
if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
    touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null
    gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
fi

%posttrans gtk
gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :


The desktop file also has a depreciated error


+ desktop-file-validate /home/leigh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64/usr/share/applications/wicd.desktop
/home/leigh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64/usr/share/applications/wicd.desktop: warning: value "Application;Network;" for key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a deprecated value "Application"
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh /home/leigh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64 wicd
 

Change

desktop-file-validate %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/wicd.desktop



To

desktop-file-install                                    \
--remove-category="Application"                             \
--delete-original                                       \
--dir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications              \
%{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/applications/wicd.desktop


Your spec file doesn't have a buildroot tag

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRoot_tag


rpmlint /wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm 
wicd.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US cli -> cl, clii, clip
wicd.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US frontend -> fronted, front end, front-end
wicd.src: W: no-buildroot-tag
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings.



I believe you need to add some init scriptlets

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript 

rpmlint wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm

wicd.x86_64: E: init-script-without-chkconfig-postin /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd
wicd.x86_64: E: init-script-without-chkconfig-preun /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd




Requires(post): chkconfig
Requires(preun): chkconfig
# This is for /sbin/service
Requires(preun): initscripts
...


%post
if [ "$1" == "1" ]; then
  /sbin/chkconfig --add wicd
  /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 wicd on
fi


%preun
if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
  /sbin/service wicd stop >/dev/null 2>&1
  /sbin/chkconfig --del wicd
fi


You may need to add this as well, but I'm not familiar with init scripts


# This is for /sbin/service
Requires(postun): initscripts
...
%postun
if [ "$1" -ge "1" ] ; then
    /sbin/service wicd condrestart >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
fi



You also have a lot of shebangs

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_tricks#Remove_shebang_from_files


wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/backend.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/wnettools.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/networking.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/dbusmanager.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-external.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-ioctl.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd.x86_64: E: wrong-script-end-of-line-encoding /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py
wicd.x86_64: E: executable-marked-as-config-file /etc/acpi/resume.d/80-wicd-connect.sh
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/translations.py 0644L /usr/bin/env


They can be fixed by adding this to the spec file

for lib in %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}/wicd/*.py; do
 sed '/\/usr\/bin\/env/d' $lib > $lib.new &&
 touch -r $lib $lib.new &&
 mv $lib.new $lib
done



The debug package is empty (no surprise there)

rpmlint '/home/leigh/Desktop/wicd-debuginfo-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm' 
wicd-debuginfo.x86_64: E: empty-debuginfo-package
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 0 warnings.


Add this to disable the debug package


%define debug_package %{nil}

Comment 7 leigh scott 2010-05-21 08:46:05 UTC
I believe you should also validate the autostart desktop file.


desktop-file-install \
  --dir %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart \
%{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop

Comment 8 David Cantrell 2010-05-21 23:19:19 UTC
I have updated the spec file and SRPM addressing all of the issues in comments 6 and 7.  One concernq:

The wicd service cannot be running at the same time as NetworkManager.  I am not sure how to best handle that, which is one reason I did not add in the scriptlets for the init scripts the first time.  It is technically possible to have both NetworkManager and wicd installed at the same time, but you can only run one at a time.  I imagine some people may want to have both installed and retain the ability to switch over to the other one without needing to uninstall one package and install another.  The scriptlets for the wicd init script are fine, but I think if the package has that, it will need to also disable NetworkManager if installed or prevent the concurrent installation of both NetworkManager and wicd.

Chen, I have no problems adding wicd to F-13 and EPEL-6.  I will make sure to request those branches when the review is completed.  I will add you as a maintainer for those branches too.

New spec file and SRPM:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm

Thanks for all the review feedback!

Comment 9 Christoph Wickert 2010-05-22 00:00:33 UTC
You are not to disable NetworkManager or even to turn on wicd by default, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript#Why_don.27t_we....

You are already making 3 packages. Why not make a 4th one for the pm-utils scripts so that all the other stuff can be noarch as it should?

How about naming the base package wicd-common instead of just wicd? The common indicated that it's not the full wicd package but just shared files between other packages.

You should pass more options to configure, at least --distro=redhat. I think other options like --share or --lib should be passed as well, then somebody can build the package with rpmbuild --rebuild --define=_datadir /foo/shared.

Please don't specify the extension of manpages. Imagine we switch from gz to bz2.

The files in %{_datadir}/man/nl must be tagged with %lang(nl)

The package must not own %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor and folders below. It only should own the icons. For directory ownership you can require hicolor-icon-theme, but this is not needed as it is already required by gtk2 (through pygtk2)

%dir %{_datadir}/wicd/curses
%{_datadir}/wicd/curses/*
is the same as
%{_datadir}/wicd/
Using %dir here only makes sense if you want to exclude certain files (because they should go into another package).

%{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop is not a config file. Changes are made in the private ~/.config/autostart namespace.

Comment 10 leigh scott 2010-05-22 00:35:16 UTC
There is a problem here, it can't own this directory as it belongs to hicolor-icon-theme (the others listed are due to bad packaging)



%dir %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor


[leigh@localhost Desktop]$ rpm -qf /usr/share/icons/hicolor
hicolor-icon-theme-0.12-1.fc13.noarch
krb5-auth-dialog-0.15-1.fc13.x86_64
fedora-logos-13.0.2-1.fc13.noarch
setroubleshoot-2.2.83-1.fc13.x86_64
[leigh@localhost Desktop]$ 


Change it from

%files gtk
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%dir %{_datadir}/wicd/gtk
%dir %{_datadir}/pixmaps/wicd
%dir %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
%{_datadir}/wicd/gtk/*
%{_datadir}/pixmaps/wicd/*
%{_datadir}/pixmaps/wicd-gtk.xpm
%{_bindir}/wicd-gtk
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor



to

%files gtk
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%dir %{_datadir}/wicd/gtk
%dir %{_datadir}/pixmaps/wicd
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
%{_datadir}/wicd/gtk/*
%{_datadir}/pixmaps/wicd/*
%{_datadir}/pixmaps/wicd-gtk.xpm
%{_bindir}/wicd-gtk
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/wicd-gtk.png
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wicd-gtk.svg



There are still some rpmlint errors that need correcting ( mainly shebangs )

wicd.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US cli -> cl, clii, clip
wicd.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US frontend -> fronted, front end, front-end
wicd.x86_64: E: explicit-lib-dependency dbus-glib
wicd.x86_64: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US frontend -> fronted, front end, front-end
wicd.x86_64: E: no-binary
wicd.x86_64: E: executable-marked-as-config-file /etc/acpi/suspend.d/50-wicd-suspend.sh
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/cli/wicd-cli.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-external.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-ioctl.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd.x86_64: E: wrong-script-end-of-line-encoding /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py
wicd.x86_64: E: executable-marked-as-config-file /etc/acpi/resume.d/80-wicd-connect.sh
wicd.x86_64: W: log-files-without-logrotate /var/log/wicd
wicd-curses.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/curses/curses_misc.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-curses.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/curses/netentry_curses.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-curses.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/curses/prefs_curses.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-gtk.x86_64: W: no-documentation
wicd-gtk.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd-gtk.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/prefs.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd-gtk.x86_64: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
4 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 16 errors, 5 warnings.




As for the networkmanager issue, would this work?



%post
if [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then
    /sbin/chkconfig --add wicd
    /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 wicd on
    /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager off
    /sbin/service NetworkManager stop >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

%preun
if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
    /sbin/service wicd stop >/dev/null 2>&1
    /sbin/chkconfig --del wicd
    /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager on
    /sbin/service NetworkManager start >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

Comment 11 leigh scott 2010-05-22 00:39:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> You are not to disable NetworkManager or even to turn on wicd by default, see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript#Why_don.27t_we....
> 

I didn't know that, thanks for the info

Comment 12 David Cantrell 2010-05-22 00:47:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> You are not to disable NetworkManager or even to turn on wicd by default, see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript#Why_don.27t_we....

I've removed the line that did the chkconfig on for wicd.

> You are already making 3 packages. Why not make a 4th one for the pm-utils
> scripts so that all the other stuff can be noarch as it should?
> 
> How about naming the base package wicd-common instead of just wicd? The common
> indicated that it's not the full wicd package but just shared files between
> other packages.

Good idea.  I have implemented what I think is a nice way to accomplish this
split in the packages.  First, I do want to keep a package named 'wicd' because
that's what the software is called and I think at least one package should be
named wicd.

Second, having some noarch packages and some arch packages built from one spec
file becomes difficult to manage, so here's how I split things:

1) The 'wicd' package contains the architecture dependent parts of wicd, which
is limited to the pm-utils script right now.  This could change as wicd gains
more functionality.

2) The 'wicd-common' package contains what was in the wicd package:  the
daemon, command line client, lang files, and docs.

3) The 'wicd' and 'wicd-common' packages require each other, so you will always
need to have both installed.  If we want to, I could drop the requirement from
wicd-common so that people could have wicd-common installed without the
arch-dependent wicd package.

This effectively splits things in to arch/noarch pieces and keeps a package
named 'wicd'.

> You should pass more options to configure, at least --distro=redhat. I think
> other options like --share or --lib should be passed as well, then somebody can
> build the package with rpmbuild --rebuild --define=_datadir /foo/shared.

Changed.

> Please don't specify the extension of manpages. Imagine we switch from gz to
> bz2.

Changed.

> The files in %{_datadir}/man/nl must be tagged with %lang(nl)

Changed.

> The package must not own %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor and folders below. It only
> should own the icons. For directory ownership you can require
> hicolor-icon-theme, but this is not needed as it is already required by gtk2
> (through pygtk2)

Changed.

> %dir %{_datadir}/wicd/curses
> %{_datadir}/wicd/curses/*
> is the same as
> %{_datadir}/wicd/
> Using %dir here only makes sense if you want to exclude certain files (because
> they should go into another package).

Changed.

> %{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop is not a config file. Changes
> are made in the private ~/.config/autostart namespace.    

Changed.

New spec file and SRPM:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm

Thanks for all the review feedback!

Comment 13 David Cantrell 2010-05-26 23:52:32 UTC
Any update on this package review?

Comment 14 leigh scott 2010-05-27 01:54:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> Any update on this package review?    

You still need to fix most of these rpmlint errors.

[leigh@localhost Desktop]$ rpmlint /home/leigh/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
wicd.x86_64: E: explicit-lib-dependency dbus-glib
wicd.x86_64: E: no-binary
wicd.x86_64: W: only-non-binary-in-usr-lib
wicd.x86_64: W: no-documentation
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 2 warnings.
[leigh@localhost Desktop]$ rpmlint /home/leigh/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/wicd-common-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
wicd-common.noarch: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US frontend -> fronted, front end, front-end
wicd-common.noarch: E: executable-marked-as-config-file /etc/acpi/suspend.d/50-wicd-suspend.sh
wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/cli/wicd-cli.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-external.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-ioctl.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd-common.noarch: E: wrong-script-end-of-line-encoding /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py
wicd-common.noarch: E: executable-marked-as-config-file /etc/acpi/resume.d/80-wicd-connect.sh
wicd-common.noarch: W: log-files-without-logrotate /var/log/wicd
wicd-common.noarch: E: init-script-without-chkconfig-postin /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd
wicd-common.noarch: E: init-script-without-chkconfig-preun /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd
wicd-common.noarch: W: incoherent-init-script-name wicd ('wicd-common', 'wicd-commond')
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 10 errors, 3 warnings.
[leigh@localhost Desktop]$ rpmlint /home/leigh/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/wicd-curses-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
wicd-curses.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/curses/curses_misc.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-curses.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/curses/netentry_curses.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-curses.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/curses/prefs_curses.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 3 errors, 0 warnings.
[leigh@localhost Desktop]$ rpmlint /home/leigh/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/wicd-gtk-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
wicd-gtk.noarch: W: no-documentation
wicd-gtk.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/prefs.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
wicd-gtk.noarch: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
wicd-gtk.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
wicd-gtk.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 3 errors, 2 warnings.
[leigh@localhost Desktop]$

Comment 15 Brian Lane 2010-05-27 03:14:35 UTC
Created attachment 417101 [details]
Fix --share

--share needs to point to the wicd share, otherwise the helper scripts like /usr/bin/wicd-cli point to the wrong location.

Comment 16 David Cantrell 2010-05-27 04:16:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> wicd.x86_64: E: explicit-lib-dependency dbus-glib

Fixed.

> wicd.x86_64: E: no-binary
> wicd.x86_64: W: only-non-binary-in-usr-lib

This can't change as the only arch-dependent component of wicd at the moment is the pm-utils script.  And since the pm-utils package is arch-dependent, this package has to be.

> wicd.x86_64: W: no-documentation

Fixed.

> [leigh@localhost Desktop]$ rpmlint
> /home/leigh/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/wicd-common-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
> wicd-common.noarch: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US frontend ->
> fronted, front end, front-end

Fixed.

> wicd-common.noarch: E: executable-marked-as-config-file
> /etc/acpi/suspend.d/50-wicd-suspend.sh

Fixed.

> wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/cli/wicd-cli.py
> 0644L /usr/bin/python
> wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script
> /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
> wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script
> /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-external.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
> wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script
> /usr/share/wicd/backends/be-ioctl.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
> wicd-common.noarch: E: non-executable-script

Fixed.

> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py 0644L /usr/bin/python
> wicd-common.noarch: E: wrong-script-end-of-line-encoding

Fixed.

> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/logfile.py
> wicd-common.noarch: E: executable-marked-as-config-file
> /etc/acpi/resume.d/80-wicd-connect.sh

Fixed.

> wicd-common.noarch: W: log-files-without-logrotate /var/log/wicd

Fixed, but now rpmlint complains because the logrotate file is /etc/logrotate.d/wicd instead of /etc/logrotate.d/wicd-common.  Given that the service name is 'wicd' and the log file will be /var/log/wicd.log, I figured this is a better logrotate file name than wicd-common.  I could move the logrotate component to the wicd package to suppress this message, let me know.

> wicd-common.noarch: E: init-script-without-chkconfig-postin
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd
> wicd-common.noarch: E: init-script-without-chkconfig-preun
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd

Fixed.

> wicd-common.noarch: W: incoherent-init-script-name wicd ('wicd-common',
> 'wicd-commond')

This one should be ignored as the service name is wicd, but since it's in the group of noarch files, I put it in the wicd-common package.  I could move it to the wicd package, but then it would sit alone without the rest of the Python code.  I suppose I don't mind either way, just let me know.

> wicd-curses.noarch: E: non-executable-script
> /usr/share/wicd/curses/curses_misc.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
> wicd-curses.noarch: E: non-executable-script
> /usr/share/wicd/curses/netentry_curses.py 0644L /usr/bin/env
> wicd-curses.noarch: E: non-executable-script
> /usr/share/wicd/curses/prefs_curses.py 0644L /usr/bin/env

Fixed.

> /home/leigh/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/wicd-gtk-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
> wicd-gtk.noarch: W: no-documentation

The documentation is in the main wicd package.

> wicd-gtk.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/prefs.py 0644L
> /usr/bin/python

Fixed.

> wicd-gtk.noarch: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop

I think this is ok.  NetworkManager's spec file lists:

    %{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop

If I need to mark it as a config file, let me know.

> wicd-gtk.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py
> 0644L /usr/bin/env
> wicd-gtk.noarch: E: non-executable-script /usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py 0644L
> /usr/bin/python

Fixed.


Thanks for the review feedback!  New spec and srpm:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm

Comment 17 leigh scott 2010-05-27 20:34:01 UTC
Hi David,

I believe you have made a mistake making the .py file executable, I believe the correct way to deal with these .py file is to remove the shebang (I could be wrong, perhaps a more experienced packager could confirm this).



http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6907158/wicd.spec


Thanks

Leigh

Comment 18 leigh scott 2010-05-27 20:54:28 UTC
I am getting some selinux noise.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596982

Comment 19 leigh scott 2010-05-27 20:56:58 UTC
And this.



Summary:

SELinux is preventing /sbin/consoletype "append" access to /var/log/wicd.log.

Detailed Description:

[consoletype has a permissive type (consoletype_t). This access was not denied.]

SELinux denied access requested by consoletype. /var/log/wicd.log may be a
mislabeled. /var/log/wicd.log default SELinux type is var_log_t, but its current
type is NetworkManager_log_t. Changing this file back to the default type, may
fix your problem.

File contexts can be assigned to a file in the following ways.

  * Files created in a directory receive the file context of the parent
    directory by default.
  * The SELinux policy might override the default label inherited from the
    parent directory by specifying a process running in context A which creates
    a file in a directory labeled B will instead create the file with label C.
    An example of this would be the dhcp client running with the dhclient_t type
    and creating a file in the directory /etc. This file would normally receive
    the etc_t type due to parental inheritance but instead the file is labeled
    with the net_conf_t type because the SELinux policy specifies this.
  * Users can change the file context on a file using tools such as chcon, or
    restorecon.

This file could have been mislabeled either by user error, or if an normally
confined application was run under the wrong domain.

However, this might also indicate a bug in SELinux because the file should not
have been labeled with this type.

If you believe this is a bug, please file a bug report against this package.

Allowing Access:

You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the
restorecon command. restorecon '/var/log/wicd.log', if this file is a directory,
you can recursively restore using restorecon -R '/var/log/wicd.log'.

Fix Command:

/sbin/restorecon '/var/log/wicd.log'

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:consoletype_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:NetworkManager_log_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/log/wicd.log [ file ]
Source                        consoletype
Source Path                   /sbin/consoletype
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          localhost.localdomain
Source RPM Packages           initscripts-9.12-1.fc13
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.7.19-15.fc13
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   restorecon
Host Name                     localhost.localdomain
Platform                      Linux localhost.localdomain
                              2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 13 05:16:23
                              UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   3
First Seen                    Thu 27 May 2010 21:47:18 BST
Last Seen                     Thu 27 May 2010 21:48:04 BST
Local ID                      982f2b67-8dc4-4393-8355-c661686d7d85
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1274993284.87:235): avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=7110 comm="consoletype" path="/var/log/wicd.log" dev=sdd3 ino=310527 scontext=system_u:system_r:consoletype_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:NetworkManager_log_t:s0 tclass=file

node=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1274993284.87:235): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=ce4bf0 a1=ce32a0 a2=ce1470 a3=10 items=0 ppid=7109 pid=7110 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="consoletype" exe="/sbin/consoletype" subj=system_u:system_r:consoletype_t:s0 key=(null)

Comment 20 Christoph Wickert 2010-05-27 22:12:18 UTC
(In reply to comment #17)
> I believe the
> correct way to deal with these .py file is to remove the shebang (I could be
> wrong, perhaps a more experienced packager could confirm this).

Right. 

BTW: There are missing Requires for pm-utils (for dorectory ownership), pygtk2-libglade (instead of pygtk2) and ethtool.

Comment 21 Chen Lei 2010-05-28 13:00:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > I believe the
> > correct way to deal with these .py file is to remove the shebang (I could be
> > wrong, perhaps a more experienced packager could confirm this).
> Right. 
> BTW: There are missing Requires for pm-utils (for dorectory ownership),
> pygtk2-libglade (instead of pygtk2) and ethtool. 
   
Installation of Wicd should be done using your distribution package if one
exists.  If not, the installation is relatively straightforward, but there
are a few dependencies:
  1. python (>=2.4, <3.0)
  2. pygtk (>=2.10)
  2. dbus and its glib and python bindings
  3. a dhcp client (dhclient, dhcpcd, and pump are supported)
  4. wireless-tools (iwlist, iwconfig, etcetera)
  5. net-tools (ip, route, etcetera)
  6. a graphical sudo application (gksu, kdesu, and ktsuss are supported),
     while optional, is strongly recommended
  7. urwid (if you want to use the curses client - needs version >=0.9.8.3)
  8. pm-utils (optional for suspend/resume integration)
     Wicd supports using versions >=1.2.4 -- earlier versions may work just
     fine, but they are completely unsupported here.


It seems pm-utils is optional for wicd, also %{_libdir}/pm-utils/sleep.d is owned by filesystem.

I found that iproute and ethtool are alternatives for net-tools, is those dependencies are really needed?

See http://packages.debian.org/sid/wicd-daemon


I also wonder whether those acpid scripts are need for fedora, thing we now have pm-utils.
%files common -f %{name}.lang
%{_sysconfdir}/acpi/resume.d/80-wicd-connect.sh
%{_sysconfdir}/acpi/suspend.d/50-wicd-suspend.sh

Comment 22 Brian Lane 2010-05-28 14:30:18 UTC
I think the logrotate source file should be named wicd-logrotate to avoid potential conflicts with other files in the ~/rpmbuild/SOURCE/ directory.

Comment 23 David Cantrell 2010-05-28 19:34:23 UTC
I've updated the spec file with the latest comments.  Changes:

1) I renamed the logrotate source file to wicd.logrotate per comment #22.  This is really only a niceness things for people doing local rpmbuilds as it won't matter when the package is built in koji since each package is built in a new mock buildroot.

2) pm-utils >= 1.2.4 was already required by the main wicd package (comment #20).  But based on comment #21, I am ok with removing this requirement since the directory is owned by filesystem and not requiring pm-utils would allow users to disable the pm-utils functionality in wicd based on whether or not pm-utils is installed.  Let me know.

3) The spec file now requires ethtool for wicd-common and was already requiring iproute and net-tools.  Despite the fact that Debian says ethtool and iproute are alternatives to net-tools, I don't mind requiring them all because it seems like something wicd is very likely to change in future releases since the program functions primarily based on parsing output of these commands.  These are all core packages that people are almost definitely going to have on their system anyway.

4) I have corrected the Python she-bang problem per comment #17.

5) The wicd-gtk package requires pygtk2-libglade instead of pygtk2.

6) I do not feel the acpi scripts are necessary, so I did not include them.  The pm-utils package provides that functionality for us in Fedora.

7) I am pretty sure there is nothing I can do about the SELinux noise you are seeing.  I think the SELinux policy will have to change for that.

Thanks for the review feedback!

New spec and srpm uploaded:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm

Comment 24 Brian Lane 2010-05-29 03:52:28 UTC
Created attachment 417799 [details]
Fix $retval in init.d/wicd

$retval should be $RETVAL in /etc/init.d/wicd

Comment 25 David Cantrell 2010-05-30 23:08:04 UTC
Fixed the init script (and reported upstream as https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/587690)

New spec and srpm uploaded:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm

Comment 26 David Cantrell 2010-06-02 15:27:14 UTC
Review updates?

Comment 27 Christoph Wickert 2010-06-02 22:51:12 UTC
Please don't ask me, I'm not the reviewer of the package and I am very busy ATM. I wont be able to look at this before this weekend - if at all. Sorry. :(

Comment 28 David Cantrell 2010-06-02 23:37:25 UTC
Sorry, I asked you because you had followed the other wicd review request and had asked to be informed about this one.  Anyone else then?  Lots of people providing review feedback, just wanting to know if there is anything else to do on this package.

Comment 29 leigh scott 2010-06-04 12:26:03 UTC
I have noticed another error

Change

%files curses
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_datadir}/wicd/curses
%{_bindir}/wicd-curses
%{_datadir}/man/man8/wicd-curses.8*
%lang(nl) %{_datadir}/man/nl/man8/wicd-curses.8*


To

%files curses
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%dir %{_datadir}/wicd/curses
%{_datadir}/wicd/curses/*
%{_bindir}/wicd-curses
%{_datadir}/man/man8/wicd-curses.8*
%lang(nl) %{_datadir}/man/nl/man8/wicd-curses.8*

Comment 30 David Cantrell 2010-06-10 15:13:57 UTC
Fixed the curses %files list.

New spec and srpm uploaded:
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd.spec
http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/wicd/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm

Comment 31 leigh scott 2010-06-14 18:36:39 UTC
Package Review
==============

Key:
- = N/A
x = Check
! = Problem
? = Not evaluated

=== REQUIRED ITEMS ===
[x]  Package is named according to the Package Naming Guidelines.
[x]  Spec file name must match the base package %{name}, in the format %{name}.spec.
[x]  Package meets the Packaging Guidelines.
[x]  Package successfully compiles and builds into binary rpms on at least one supported architecture.
Tested on: F13 x86_64
[x]  Rpmlint output:

rpmlint  wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.src.rpm 
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

rpmlint wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
wicd.x86_64: E: no-binary
wicd.x86_64: W: only-non-binary-in-usr-lib
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 1 warnings.

rpmlint wicd-common-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
wicd-common.noarch: E: incoherent-logrotate-file /etc/logrotate.d/wicd
wicd-common.noarch: W: incoherent-init-script-name wicd ('wicd-common', 'wicd-commond')
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 1 warnings.

rpmlint wicd-curses-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

rpmlint wicd-gtk-1.7.0-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
wicd-gtk.noarch: W: no-documentation
wicd-gtk.noarch: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
wicd-gtk.noarch: W: no-manual-page-for-binary wicd-gtk
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings.




[x]  Package is not relocatable.
[x]  Buildroot is correct (%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(id -u -n))
[x]  Package is licensed with an open-source compatible license and meets other legal requirements as defined in the legal section of Packaging Guidelines.
[x]  License field in the package spec file matches the actual license.
License type: GPLv2+
[x]  If (and only if) the source package includes the text of the license(s) in its own file, then that file, containing the text of the license(s) for the package is included in %doc.
[x]  Spec file is legible and written in American English.
[x]  Sources used to build the package matches the upstream source, as provided in the spec URL.
MD5SUM this package    : 7e5956891d6696b6185baa7f5dc70c56  wicd-1.7.0.tar.bz2
MD5SUM upstream package: 7e5956891d6696b6185baa7f5dc70c56  wicd-1.7.0.tar.bz2
[x]  Package is not known to require ExcludeArch, OR:
Arches excluded:
Why:
[x]  All build dependencies are listed in BuildRequires, except for any that are listed in the exceptions section of Packaging Guidelines.
[x]  The spec file handles locales properly.
[x]  ldconfig called in %post and %postun if required.
[x]  Package must own all directories that it creates.
[x]  Package requires other packages for directories it uses.
[x]  Package does not contain duplicates in %files.
[x]  Permissions on files are set properly.
[x]  Package has a %clean section, which contains rm -rf %{buildroot} (or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT).
[x]  Package consistently uses macros.
[x]  Package contains code, or permissable content.
[-]  Large documentation files are in a -doc subpackage, if required.
[x]  Package uses nothing in %doc for runtime.
[-]  Header files in -devel subpackage, if present.
[-]  Static libraries in -devel subpackage, if present.
[-]  Package requires pkgconfig, if .pc files are present.
[-]  Development .so files in -devel subpackage, if present.
[x]  Fully versioned dependency in subpackages, if present.
[x]  Package does not contain any libtool archives (.la).
[x]  Package contains a properly installed %{name}.desktop file if it is a GUI application.
[x]  Package does not own files or directories owned by other packages.

=== SUGGESTED ITEMS ===
[x]  Latest version is packaged.
[x]  Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[-]  Description and summary sections in the package spec file contains translations for supported Non-English languages, if available.
[x]  Reviewer should test that the package builds in mock.
Tested on: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2250049
[x]  Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported architectures.
Tested on: i686 & x86_64
[x]  Package functions as described.
[x]  Scriptlets must be sane, if used.
[-]  The placement of pkgconfig(.pc) files are correct.
[x]  File based requires are sane.




================
*** APPROVED ***
================

Comment 32 David Cantrell 2010-06-14 18:43:30 UTC
New Package CVS Request
=======================
Package Name: wicd
Short Description: Wireless and wired network connection manager
Owners: dcantrel
Branches: F-13 EL-6
InitialCC:

Comment 33 Christoph Wickert 2010-06-14 20:38:46 UTC
I am very sorry about not helping out in this review but only critizising. However there is still one thing I'd like to see changed: The wicd binary package should IMO be renamed to wicd-pm-utils or alike to avoid confusion. It is perfectly fine to have a %{name}.src.rpm that does not create a %{name}.%{arch}rpm but only subpackages with different names.

Comment 34 Chen Lei 2010-06-15 03:10:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #33)
> I am very sorry about not helping out in this review but only critizising.
> However there is still one thing I'd like to see changed: The wicd binary
> package should IMO be renamed to wicd-pm-utils or alike to avoid confusion. It
> is perfectly fine to have a %{name}.src.rpm that does not create a
> %{name}.%{arch}rpm but only subpackages with different names.    

Is it acceptable to merge wicd-common into wicd package until rpm allow noarch package to have arch specfic subpackages? Wicd is designed as a non-multiarch package, making it noarch won't save space for both repos and end users currently.

Comment 35 leigh scott 2010-06-15 19:41:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #32)
> New Package CVS Request
> =======================
> Package Name: wicd
> Short Description: Wireless and wired network connection manager
> Owners: dcantrel
> Branches: F-13 EL-6
> InitialCC:    

Is there any reason why you can't include the F-12 branch? (it isn't EOL for another 6 months.)

Comment 36 David Cantrell 2010-06-15 20:33:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #35)
> (In reply to comment #32)
> > New Package CVS Request
> > =======================
> > Package Name: wicd
> > Short Description: Wireless and wired network connection manager
> > Owners: dcantrel
> > Branches: F-13 EL-6
> > InitialCC:    
> 
> Is there any reason why you can't include the F-12 branch? (it isn't EOL for
> another 6 months.)    

No reason, just forgot to include it in the list.

Comment 37 David Cantrell 2010-06-15 20:33:45 UTC
New Package CVS Request
=======================
Package Name: wicd
Short Description: Wireless and wired network connection manager
Owners: dcantrel
Branches: F-12 F-13 EL-6
InitialCC:

Comment 38 Christoph Wickert 2010-06-15 20:43:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #34)
> Is it acceptable to merge wicd-common into wicd package until rpm allow noarch
> package to have arch specfic subpackages? 

AFAIK this is a limitation of the buildsys but not of rpm itself.

> Wicd is designed as a non-multiarch
> package, making it noarch won't save space for both repos and end users
> currently.

I know, hence my suggestion: SRPM is "wicd" and builds into
- wicd-pm-utils (base-package, arch)
- wicd-common (noarch, the name wicd-common was chosen to indicate it is not
standalone and because it must not be "wicd" to not become the base-package)
- wicd-curses (noarch)
- wicd-gtk (noarch)
- wicd-gtk will get a "Provides: %{name} = %{version}" so that "yum install
wicd" works.

Comment 39 Kevin Fenzi 2010-06-21 02:08:01 UTC
CVS done (by process-cvs-requests.py).

Comment 40 Fedora Update System 2010-06-21 18:25:36 UTC
wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13

Comment 41 Fedora Update System 2010-06-21 18:27:23 UTC
wicd-1.7.0-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wicd-1.7.0-1.fc12

Comment 42 Fedora Update System 2010-06-22 17:13:27 UTC
wicd-1.7.0-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 43 Fedora Update System 2010-06-22 17:18:18 UTC
wicd-1.7.0-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 44 Reese 2010-10-21 22:04:18 UTC
I've experienced a variety of problems following wicd-1.6.2.1, the most consistent of which is an inability to remember, and therefore automatically connect to, hidden networks.  1.6.2.1 successfully accomplishes this while 1.6.2.2 and 1.7* do not.  This applies to use with F11, F12, and F13.

I've seen the devs pin these problems on wireless cards, but their old version works and the new ones don't, so this seems inaccurate.

I recommend 1.6.2.1 for repository. wicd's overwhelming strength is consistency in that connections aren't dropped. networkmanager struggles with this, especially when dealing with hidden networks.  Let's not make this feature obsolete with newer, inferior releases.

Comment 45 manuel wolfshant 2010-10-21 23:21:47 UTC
FWIW, I've had issues similar to Reese's with wicd>=1.6.2.2 , too, on Centos 5. I ended by downgrading to 1.6.2.1.

Comment 46 David Cantrell 2010-10-21 23:33:06 UTC
Interesting.  I'm using the latest version I packaged up and it works fine for me, but out of curiosity do either of you have SELinux enabled?  I have a feeling that wicd's daemon may be hitting some SELinux walls when it tries to remember settings.

Comment 47 manuel wolfshant 2010-10-21 23:47:14 UTC
As far as I remember, selinux was indeed active, but I am 90% positive that I also tried with it in permissive mode. If you want me to, I can perform any tests that you feel that could be useful, but only in Centos 5 ( the only computer at hand with Wi-Fi is a laptop which runs C5; switching to anything else is not an option).

As a sidenote and probably not Fedora but RHEL related, on the very same laptop wicd from the Backtrack livecd performs WAY better. But this might be due to the newer kernel module for the Broadcom Wi-Fi chipset used in this oldish Dell.

Comment 48 leigh scott 2010-10-22 11:16:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #46)
> Interesting.  I'm using the latest version I packaged up and it works fine for
> me, but out of curiosity do either of you have SELinux enabled?  I have a
> feeling that wicd's daemon may be hitting some SELinux walls when it tries to
> remember settings.

It's working here as well, I'm only getting these selinux warnings.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596982

Comment 49 Reese 2010-10-25 03:52:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #46)
> Interesting.  I'm using the latest version I packaged up and it works fine for
> me, but out of curiosity do either of you have SELinux enabled?  I have a
> feeling that wicd's daemon may be hitting some SELinux walls when it tries to
> remember settings.

The inability to remember hidden networks was not related to SElinux issues, as far as I could tell.  

(In reply to comment #48)
> It's working here as well, I'm only getting these selinux warnings.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596982

wicd has always "worked" and was able to connect to the forgotten hidden networks once the essid was provided.  On the other hand, 1.6.2.1 remembers hidden networks.

Comment 50 Christoph Wickert 2010-10-25 07:19:37 UTC
Hi everybody,

can you please stop these discussions here now and file proper bugs for the remaining problems? This bug deals only with the review but not with functional issues.


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