[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1131877: Bug#1131877: NetworkManager configures dnsmasq to read all files in /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/, including dpkg temporary files

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.03.26 um 18:38 schrieb Jann Horn:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.54.3
> 
> NetworkManager has this code in src/core/dns/nm-dns-dnsmasq.c:
> 
> ```
> argv[argv_idx++] = "--conf-dir=" CONFDIR;
> ```
> 
> This instructs NetworkManager to parse _all_ files in
> /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/ as config files, including temporary
> files created by dpkg during package upgrades (*.dpkg-new, *.dpkg-tmp,
> *.dpkg-old, *.dpkg-dist). If files in /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/
> are managed by a debian package, this can cause dnsmasq to fail to
> start during package upgrades, because listing the same options in two
> files can cause dnsmasq errors.

Please raise such issues upstream at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/

If you have a need for package provided configuration files, maybe a 
better approach is to have a
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/, where packages can drop in a file 
and users/admins can override that via a file of the same name in 
/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d.

But as said, this is best discussed upstream.

Regards
Michael
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