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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 07.05.2015 um 19:30 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 19:08 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 07.05.2015 um 18:09 schrieb Dan Williams:
>>> 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.
> 
> Hmm, ok.  I guess we'll have to allow fallback to writing resolvconf if
> the executable doesn't exist.

That would be nice, thanks!
I think, it should only skip any fallbacks if rc-manager=resolvconf is
explicitly set *and* the resolvconf binary does exist.



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