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aircrack-ng: mention script dependencies in the help text

Message ID 1463599723-12836-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be
State Accepted
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Arnout Vandecappelle May 18, 2016, 7:28 p.m. UTC
aircrack-ng has some scripts (airmon-ng, airmon-zc) that use external
tools for their functionality. We don't select the corresponding
packages because some of the other aircrack-ng tools don't need these
at all.

Still, the user should be informed of this. So update the help text to
refer to all packages used by the scripts:
- ethtool
- iw
- rfkill
- util-linux for lspci and lsusb (script uses options not available in
  busybox)
- wireless_tools for iwconfig and iwpriv

See also bug #8936

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: lipkegu@gmail.com
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 package/aircrack-ng/Config.in | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Thomas Petazzoni May 24, 2016, 1:16 p.m. UTC | #1
Hello,

On Wed, 18 May 2016 21:28:43 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle
(Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> aircrack-ng has some scripts (airmon-ng, airmon-zc) that use external
> tools for their functionality. We don't select the corresponding
> packages because some of the other aircrack-ng tools don't need these
> at all.
> 
> Still, the user should be informed of this. So update the help text to
> refer to all packages used by the scripts:
> - ethtool
> - iw
> - rfkill
> - util-linux for lspci and lsusb (script uses options not available in
>   busybox)
> - wireless_tools for iwconfig and iwpriv
> 
> See also bug #8936
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> Cc: lipkegu@gmail.com
> ---
>  package/aircrack-ng/Config.in | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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diff --git a/package/aircrack-ng/Config.in b/package/aircrack-ng/Config.in
index bb100b8..00ce4e4 100644
--- a/package/aircrack-ng/Config.in
+++ b/package/aircrack-ng/Config.in
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@  config BR2_PACKAGE_AIRCRACK_NG
 	help
 	  A set of tools for auditing wireless networks
 
+	  For complete functionality, also select ethtool, iw, rfkill,
+	  util-linux utilities, and wireless_tools.
+
 	  http://www.aircrack-ng.org/
 
 comment "aircrack-ng needs a toolchain w/ threads"