[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#604916: network-manager: support for additional configuration

[Giacomo Mulas]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-4
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if (at least for experienced users) network-manager could
enable them to modify some system configurations depending on the connection
profile chosen.  Some of this comes naturally through integration with
resolvconf (which automagically sets up a local caching nameserver to use
the nameservers specified in resolvconf, or obtained through dhcp, as
forwarders).  Another typical configuration which could be supported is the
setting up of appropriate smarthosts for email delivery, be it via
resolvconf or directly, or proxy servers etc..  Indeed, it would be
desirable to be able to use the information which is obtained by dhcp (or
which could be given by optional fields in the network-manager interface for
setting up connections) for setting up appropriately services or, at least,
environment variables (so that one could write resolvconf scripts to use
them, for example).

As things stand, depending on where I move to work I have every time to
manually set up exim4 to use the appropriate local smarthost, my browser to
use the appropriate local proxy etc., despite network-manager automatically
recognising the appropriate wireless network, and correctly connecting to
it.  It would be so much nicer if I could at least optionally attach a shell
script to each network connection, so that everything would be set up just
by choosing it.

Thanks in advance
Giacomo Mulas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-jak (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112+nmu2  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.24-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-13 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-7    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.24-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.88-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.5-2     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.8.6-1     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               164-2       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-6       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.1-4     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.1-4     network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.96-4      PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.17.2-3.3  Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-26      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         164-2       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.6.10-2    client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dns 2.55-2                               A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  ipt 1.4.10-1                             administration tools for packet fi
ii  mod 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-1+b1 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  pol 0.96-4                               framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp 2.4.5-4                              Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

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