[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#615082: Bug#615082: Acknowledgement (network-manager: dnsmasq exited with error: Configuration problem)

[Simon Kelley]

On 25/02/11 16:55, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Thanks Jérémy for the followup.
>
> Am 25.02.2011 17:32, schrieb Jérémy Lal:
>> this bug comes from dnsmasq update to 2.57-1
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/725041
>
> Simon, I'd like your input on this as dnsmasq maintainer, how this should be fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>

It looks like the bug may be longstanding,

dnsmasq --conf-file filename

will not read filename, it will read nothing. (It sets the conf-file to 
be empty, and the filename argument is superfluous) All that's changed 
in 2.57 is that dnsmasq sanity-checks better.

The correct command line is either

dnsmasq --conf-file=filename

or

dnsmasq -C filename

Looking at the source code for NetworkManager, the latter makes for an 
easier patch.

	nm_cmd_line_add_string (cmd, "--conf-file");
	nm_cmd_line_add_string (cmd, buf);

becomes

	nm_cmd_line_add_string (cmd, "-C");
	nm_cmd_line_add_string (cmd, buf);


HTH


Simon.