Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default

[peter green]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Millan [mailto:rmh at aybabtu.com]
> Sent: 25 February 2007 00:57
> To: peter green
> Cc: 412249 at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:30:36AM -0000, peter green wrote:
> > 
> > > As to what network-admin can do, it could easily alter the order (run
> > > dhclient first, then modify resolv.conf), but that would only archieve
> > > temporary unfuckage (i.e., same situation as if resolvconf 
> was installed).
> > can't it just reconfigure dhclient not to touch dns (i presume 
> dhclient has an option for this, if not then it should do) when 
> the user specifies that they want to set it manually?
> 
> No.  Check it out in /etc/dhclient-script.  We can change that, of course,
> but using the enter/exit hooks sounds easier.
if i get this right you are proposing letting dhclient write the file then immediately writing over it, that sounds like a dirty and confusing hack to me. Furthermore it will break any apps that happen to read resolv.conf (and possiblly cache it) between dhclient putting the wrong stuff in and your script replacing it with the right stuff.