Bug#882504: gnome-shell: apt-helper wait-online bypasses well-known mechanism to wait for the network to be 'online'

[Michael Biebl]

Am 23.11.2017 um 15:26 schrieb Sam Morris:
> I notice that apt-helper.cc has a hard-coded list of network management
> services services which, if running, will be waited on by running a
> service-specific command. Rather than such a cardcoded list, apt could
> make use of the network-online.target, which is the well-known
> integration point provided by systemd for clients to wait for the
> network to be 'online'.

The problem is, that network-online.target is a boot-time
synchronization point, whereas apt needs this for suspend/resume as
well, i.e. during runtime.

This is not what network-online.target was designed for.

See also https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/7345

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