Bugs for NM 0.7

Alexander Sack asac at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 8 09:51:59 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:44:49AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:31:07AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:26:50AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > To be fair to NM, this is a Debian/Ubuntu integration issue. System-wide 
> > > configuration is present but requires a system-specific backend.
> > > 
> > 
> > NetworkManager has a distro independent system-wise backend called
> > "keyfile". And thats enabled by default in ubuntu. What isnt enabled
> > by default yet is the legacy backend for /etc/network/interfaces, but
> > that isnt the problem this is about afaict.
> 
> The thread was discussing the removal of network-admin - doesn't that 
> modify /etc/network/interfaces?
> 

Yes it does that atm. But if network-admin is still wanted in the long
run - it could also write keyfile system configurations.

 - Alexander





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