Bug#939904: systemd should ship resolvconf symlink in some package

[Tim Mohlmann]

Hi,

> So for wireguard's purposes, it would be good to figure out how to get
> some debian package that ships the symlink in question (i understand why
> you can't ship the symlink by default in the systemd package -- it would
> conflict with the other implementations of resolvconf).

I've stumbled across this after I replied to 930735. Arch linux seems to
solve it by a separate package. It blocks openresolv, to prevent the
conflict on the symlink.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd-resolvconf/

Br, Tim

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:39:59 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <
dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On Tue 2019-09-10 08:54:35 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > wouldn't it be better if wireguard calls resolvctl directly?
> > Then it knows exactly what kind of behaviour it'll get.
> >
> > You're right about the resolvconf.1 man page. We should not ship that in
> > the systemd man page since we don't ship the resolvconf symlink either
> > (for obvious reasons).
>
> Hm, Jason (wireguard upstream, cc'ed here) seems to believe strongly in
> the resolvconf interface.  he writes [0]:
>
> >> The standard interface for modifying DNS on Linux is resolvconf. It is
for
> >> this reason that systemd added the compatibility layer. Debian should
> >> install the proper symlink. WireGuard upstream will support the
standard
> >> mechanism of resolvconf.
>
> fwiw, I don't understand the vehemence of his allegiance to this
> interface, especially given the amount of trouble its different
> implementations have caused him (and others) in the past, but *shrug*
> i'd also prefer not to diverge from the version of wg-quick that he's
> shipping upstream, unless someone from the systemd team wants to supply
> a patch that they think is a reliable fix for the linux bash
> implementation [1].
>
> Is the resolvectl interface stable as documented?
>
> So for wireguard's purposes, it would be good to figure out how to get
> some debian package that ships the symlink in question (i understand why
> you can't ship the symlink by default in the systemd package -- it would
> conflict with the other implementations of resolvconf).
>
> Is there a chance that the systemd source would generate such a package
> (one that enables systemd-resolved, and supplies the symlinks to the
> binary and the manpage)?
>
> If not, feel free to close this bug with an explanation of why that's
> not acceptable.
>
> Thanks for your work in maintaining systemd.
>
>          --dkg
>
> [0] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-September/004521.html
> [1]
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wireguard/blob/debian/master/src/tools/wg-quick/linux.bash
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