Hi, On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 00:05, Christian Babeux wrote:

It seems that the version of wicd in extra (version 1.4.1) is outdated and has currently no maintainer. The new version (version 1.5.x) is moved from /usr/lib/wicd to respect FHS and add interesting new features. There is also a svn version in the AUR, but I don't think it is stable enough to be in extra. So what are the plans for this package ? No idea. I'd be pleased to maintain it in [community] if no dev is willing to maintain it. I and some of my users love it for laptops.

-- Geoffroy Carrier

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Pyther wrote:

I have updated the wicd package build, daemon script, and install script.

All the files are now in /usr /etc and /var using standard paths

/usr/bin/wicd-client contains both the tray and gui elements now and /usr/lib/wicd/daemon.py is the daemon.

I have included the update tar file.

Hopefully Varun (the maintainer) can use this as a base for the new package. Anyone who wants the new version of wicd can also use this package. I have the pkgrel set to 0 so that when an official package comes out pacman will pick it up. This package works on my system, but of course I can not guarantee it won't blow up your system!

I adopted wicd after Varun dropped it, though I havn't had a chance to familiarise myself with it. If any other devs want it, i'm happy to pass it on. In the meantime, I'll look through your changes and adopt them, thanks! James

James Rayner wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Pyther wrote:

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I have updated the wicd package build, daemon script, and install script.

All the files are now in /usr /etc and /var using standard paths

/usr/bin/wicd-client contains both the tray and gui elements now and /usr/lib/wicd/daemon.py is the daemon.

I have included the update tar file.

Hopefully Varun (the maintainer) can use this as a base for the new package. Anyone who wants the new version of wicd can also use this package. I have the pkgrel set to 0 so that when an official package comes out pacman will pick it up. This package works on my system, but of course I can not guarantee it won't blow up your system!

I adopted wicd after Varun dropped it, though I havn't had a chance to familiarise myself with it. If any other devs want it, i'm happy to pass it on.

In the meantime, I'll look through your changes and adopt them, thanks!

James

There is a problem with the wicd daemon script that I submitted, for some reason on shutdown /var/run/wicd/wicd.pid is not getting deleted, this is then preventing wicd from starting up. I tried your pkgbuild Pyther. Seems to works fine on my laptop. I found

Pyther wrote: that in order to get the script button of a wifi connection working, you need to have gksu installed. When installed, wicd asked for proper credentials and let me through to edit the scripts. Maybe gksu should be added to optdepends or a message can be shown post-installation ?