[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#751594: Bug#751594: Bug#751594: network-manager: dnsmasq incompatible with network manager and systemd

[Michael Biebl]

Am 16.06.2014 17:29, schrieb Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
>> So, NetworkManager checks if somebody is listening to the right DBus
>> address. With Debian and systemd, since dnsmasq is DBus enabled, it will
>> be started at this point. Otherwise, the patch also tries to run dnsmasq
>> itself.
>>
>> Then, there is another patch to use a "private" DBus name to avoid using
>> dnsmasq from the system I suppose. The relevant entry is here:
>>
> 
> Exactly. The issue is that it's not just incompatible with systemd,
> but more or less with just about any other dnsmasq instance that could
> be started either with just installing the dnsmasq package (regardless
> of it actually being properly configured and in use), in some ways
> incompatible with the libvirtd / qemu instances of dnsmasq... In
> general, it's just not necessarily meant for running multiple
> instances of dnsmasq that speak to each other.
> 
>> network-manager (0.9.6.0-0ubuntu4) quantal; urgency=low
>>
>>   * debian/patches/dns-dnsmasq-interface-and-dbus-path.patch: set the address
>>     dnsmasq (and bind) plugins should listen on for DNS resolution to 127.0.1.1,
>>     as opposed to 127.0.0.1 to avoid conflicts with other instances that might
>>     need to run on the system with that address.
>>     Also set the dnsmasq DBus service name to our own custom name:
>>     org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.dnsmasq, which will also avoid conflicting
>>     with other dnsmasq instances which might have --enable-dbus enabled.
>>     (LP: #1034946)
>>
>>  -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu-tl at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:45:46 -0400
>>
>> Maybe Mathieu (in copy) can tell us if this has been forwarded upstream.
>>
> 
> It hasn't yet -- upstreaming the dnsmasq patches I wrote is still a
> work in progress: I've started to prepare clean patches in a pristine
> git tree, but I can't put time in fast enough to keep up with master.
> 
> You'll likely also want to have the patch to configure dnsmasq via
> DBus rather than restarting it all the time, and that's the one that
> needs to most work, I wanted to update it to use the SetServersEx
> instead of SetServers DBus method; which would avoid a minor
> regression.
> 
> So, to quickly get the patches you could use the ones from trusty or
> utopic, they should apply cleanly to the version in unstable.

I plan to update the version in unstable to 0.9.10 soonish.
I also think this patch is not a Debian/Ubuntu specific integration
issue, so this should be dealt with upstream.

Vincent, please raise this issue upstream and work with Mathieu to get
this included upstream.

I don't think I want to maintain such a patch downstream.

Michael

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