[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#743138: Bug#743138: [Needs upstream 0.9.10 release] Please only enable ifupdown plugin when ifupdown installed

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 04:36:47PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 30.03.2014 23:00, schrieb Josh Triplett:
> > NetworkManager 0.9.10 upstream will add support for a .d configuration
> > directory, and syntax to incrementally enable plugins
> > (plugins+=pluginname).  This would allow a package like ifupdown to ship
> > a configuration file enabling and configuring the ifupdown plugin, which
> > could then otherwise remain disabled.
> 
> This is certainly an interesting idea, but there a few issues:
> a/ the ifupdown plugin not only parses /etc/network/interface but e.g.
> also provides the hostname information stored in /etc/hostname, which we
> want even if ifupdown is not installed.

That shouldn't be in the ifupdown plugin; NetworkManager should ideally
be unconditionally getting it from /etc/hostname or from hostnamed.

> b/ what happens if you install ifupdown *after* network-manager?

ifupdown will install the configuration file, and either NetworkManager
will notice the new configuration file and reload (I don't know if it
does that), or the network-manager package can install a trigger for
that directory.

- Josh Triplett