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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 31.03.2014 20:40, schrieb 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.

Getting it unconditionally is a bit problematic, since on most
distributions /etc/hostname didn't exist. Now that systemd chose to use
/etc/hostname, the situation is a bit different.

Care to forward that to upstream?



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