[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#784587: Bug#784587: Bug#784587: network-manager: does not set up resolv.conf

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Dan!

Am 07.05.2015 um 18:09 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 13:15 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 May 2015, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> The attached patch should fix the issue. Will poke upstream for a review
>>> and upload tomorrow.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick fix!
> 
> Got found and fixed yesterday in nm-1-0...

Hm, I don't do any changes in the nm-1-0 related to that. Where those
fixes not pushed?

> In git master there is no longer fallback if resolvconf fails for some
> reason; but the resolv.conf manager is now a config option.  So we'd
> expect distros to ship a sub-package that drops a config snippet
> into /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ enabling resolvconf which also requires
> the resolvconf package itself, so that when the config option is set,
> resolvconf is always installed.  We may need some tweaking of the
> default handling here, but the idea is that if the user specifically
> chose resolvconf and it fails, that should be a hard failure and NM
> shouldn't be touching resolv.conf since the user told NM not to...

I kind of liked the if-resolvconf-found-use-it behaviour.
The new behaviour will be a bit icky if I go the subpackage route due to
how conffiles are handled.
conffiles (config files in /etc/) are not automatically removed by dpkg
if the package is removed (they are only removed on purge).
So if the user uninstalles (but doesn't purge) the sub-package, the
conf.d snippet will stay around and he'll get resolv.conf failures
because it's no longer guaranteed the resolvconf package is installed.


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