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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.02.2011 20:45, schrieb Simon Kelley:
> On 25/02/11 19:29, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 25.02.2011 18:58, schrieb Simon Kelley:

>> Is there maybe a nicer way to tell dnsmasq to *not* read the global
>> configuration file?
> 
> Ah, I hadn't read up in the source code to that part.
> 
> It's completely unnecessary:
> 
> dnsmasq --conf-file
> 
> suppresses reading the default configuration file. Just stop adding the 
> junk filename (which never did anything, anyway) and dnsmasq will no 
> longer complain.

Perfect, thanks for your input. Seems like the way to go then.

Just to be sure: Can I rely on dnsmasq --conf-file to work on versions < 2.57?
Is there a minimum version when this behaviour was introduced?
I can only assume Dan added this hack (back then) for a reason.

Michael
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