[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] [PATCH] resolvconf support (Re: NM 0.7 Debian Lenny - strangest issue...)

[Michael Biebl]

Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:07:21PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:42:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> I wouldn't necessarily add a configure flag and #ifdef WITH_RESOLVCONF.
>>>
>>> I'd simply check at runtime, if the resolvconf binary is available (  
>>> g_file_test (RESOLVCONF, G_FILE_TEST_IS_EXECUTABLE)) { .. } )
>> OK, I didnt do that because I assumed that this is a debian/ubuntu
>> only thing. However, I could easily change it obviously.
>>
>> (However, the fallbacks will still be necessary in case someone trashed
>> resolvconf by replacing the /etc/resolv.conf link with a file.)
> 
> I forgot: the ifdef WITH_RESOLVCONF doesnt mean "resolvconf will
> exist", it just means: "try to use resolvconf".
> 
> So it just ment as a way to disable it for distros that dont have
> resolvconf anyway.

Yeah, I guess you are right. It probably doesn't make sense to check for 
/sbin/resolvconf on distros, which don't even ship that tool in their 
archives.

Michael
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