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

[Simon Kelley]

On 25/02/11 20:03, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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?

You can.

> Is there a minimum version when this behaviour was introduced?

There must be and I'm not sure exactly which it is, but I just checked 
2.39 which is four years old, and this behaviour was in then.

> I can only assume Dan added this hack (back then) for a reason.

My guess is that it arises from unclear documentation rather than lack 
of functionality.

Cheers,

Simon.

>
> Michael