Use wpa_supplicant only long enough to replace it

2015/07/282015/07/27 by Justin Sherrill

Use wpa_supplicant only long enough to replace it

DragonFly ships with wpa_supplicant, for setting up WiFi. However, there’s no guarantee it’s the latest version. A solution exists: security/wpa_supplicant in dports. However, this has a chicken-and-egg problem, where you need wpa_supplicant to get online and download the dports version of wpa_supplicant. So, DragonFly still includes wpa_supplicant in the base system, but you should upgrade to the dports version when possible.

3 Replies to “Use wpa_supplicant only long enough to replace it”

Vitaly says:

2015/07/28 at 16:19

I think it would be better to provide wpa_supplicant as pre-installed package built from dports i.e. in a way as git and bind-tools are provided.
Vitaly says:

2015/07/28 at 16:22

Update: and so wpa_supplicant could be removed from source tree.
Todd says:

2015/07/28 at 19:06

Maybe an installer menu item “Install security updates with pkg” for this and future similar issues.

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