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

[josh at joshtriplett.org]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 08:49:57PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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?

Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727407