[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#511636: add comment to /etc/network/interfaces that any custom rule will deactivate network-manager

[Michael Biebl]

Sascha Silbe wrote:
>>> So please mention this possible breakage in /etc/network/interfaces.
>> /etc/network/interfaces is not a place for documentation, 
>> README.Debian is though.
> So how about mentioning it in interfaces(5)?

This man page is not part of the network-manager package.

>> Besides, it would require to mangle an existing 
>> /etc/network/interfaces file in
>> postinst, which sounds scary at best.
> I thought more about newly installed systems than upgrading ones. The 
> latter could be warned by an entry in the Release Notes instead.
> Wouldn't want my /etc/network/interfaces to be touched by a postinst 
> script.
> 
>> A better way is, to get a fix for [1].
> Of course that's the better way. It's just not going to happen for 
> lenny, if at all (upstream seems quite reluctant).

The idea is, that if NM finds an interface, which it doesn't manage, that
instead of reporting offline for that interface, it always reports online.
This is obviously a bit of a crude hack.
The advantage over the current situation would be though, that it wouldn't be a
regression to old ifupdown behaviour. Apps would simply try to establish a
network connection and time out.

There is a patch floating around for NM 0.6 in one of the older Ubuntu releases,
which I could reuse (attached for reference).

Care to test this patch and give me your feedback?

Cheers,
Michael

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