[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#754395: Bug#754395: network-manager: breaks networking by no longer reading connections from /e/n/interfaces

[Michael Biebl]

Am 10.07.2014 18:32, schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> [ifupdown]
>> managed=true
> 
> Oh well, managed=true is not really supported and tested. After all,
> having both ifupdown and NM manage the same interface is bound to fail
> in some way anyway.
> 
> I'm inclined to simply rip out that code completely, it's just too
> buggy. I'd suggest you use the keyfile plugin to store your system
> connections.
> 
> Patches to fix managed=true mode are welcome. I'll probably won't spend
> a lot of effort on it.

Actually, I just talked to Mathieu (Ubuntu maintainer of NM) via IRC,
and we agreed that keeping this code alive is probably not the best idea.

So we are going to rip out the code for managed=true and simply mark
devices found in /e/n/i as unmanaged.

Michael

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