[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606268: Bug#606268: now ignores interfaces configured by d-i

[Michael Biebl]

On 08.12.2010 01:32, Joey Hess wrote:

> But even if that is the case, this still stands:
> 
> a. Would you really want laptops' wireless interfaces to be
>    managed by ifupdown on a system with network-manager, by default?

No, but as I already mentioned imho this can only be handled half way sane in
d-i to not write out any /e/n/i configuration in the first place if
network-manager is being installed.
How would you know the configuration is from d-i and not manually added by the
administrator?
How would you handle the case where ifupdown is indeed used to configure the
wireless interface and there is no configuration for network-manager?

Commenting out the /e/n/i configuration then would kill the network connection,
which would be RC too.
Before commenting out anything in /e/n/i I need to be sure NM will be able to
bring up the device. This is really only possible to say for a interface
configuration with dhcp and nothing else.

So in a case like this I'd leave the decision to the administrator to the
system. If he wants nm to manage the interface he can do so by commenting
out/removing the configuration from /e/n/i.

That's the only safe choice I see right now.

I'm open though to a solution which addresses the above questions.

> 
> b. squeeze is heavily frozen, and it is far, far to late in the release
>    cycle to be making big changes to either d-i or network-manager.
> 

I know that, but I don't know what you want to imply with that or what you want
me to reply on that.

Michael

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