[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#612424: Bug#612424: network-manager: Continuously updates /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*

[Michael Biebl]

tags 612424 upstream pending
thanks

Am 08.02.2011 14:27, schrieb Colomban Wendling:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.8.2-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Since upgrade from 0.8.1-6 to 0.8.2-5, NM updates the timestamp setting
> of system connections continuously (well, from time to time, but still).
> 
> This is a major usability problem when combined with EtcKeeper.
> Moreover, simply making EtcKeeper ignore these files isn't a good
> solution since they also contains useful informations (system
> interfaces managed by NM).
> 
> So, please save this timestamp information somewhere else if possible.
> 
> NOTE:
> The "modified" configuration file below
> (/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf) hasn't be modified by me but
> by successive upgrades. It was created when upgrading from 0.8.1-1 to
> 0.8.1-2 (August 6th, 2010) and slightly modified during last update
> from 0.8.1-6 to 0.8.2-5 (adding the no-auto-default= line).
> 

Will be fixed in the upcoming 0.8.4 release which stores this information in
/var/lib.

Cheers,
Michael


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