[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#682497: init.d: LSB headers: please Provides: $network

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2012/8/22 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> network-manager does not block during boot until a network connection is
> established contrary to ifupdown.
>
> Letting the network-manager sysv init script provide $network would be
> wrong because of that, because network-manager being started doesn't
> mean a network connection is available.
>
> network-manager ships a tool called nm-online, which blocks until a
> network connection has been established (or an optional timeout is reached).

> A similar service could be written for sysv. Such a service could have a
> provides: $network.

This sounds even better than making network-manager provide the
service. In that case, default overrides found in insserv.conf are
already wrong, it appears.

Martin-Éric