RFC: new modes in network-manager 0.7 + ifupdown

[Jamie Jones]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:04 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:05 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > Yes, thats right and I thought about that case before.
> > 
> > The right solution would use nm-tool or some handcrafted D-Bus calls
> > to detect whether NM is running in managed mode or not. That should be
> > fairly simple and is certainly something we should look into for
> > jaunty.
> 
> Um, forgive my ignorance, but when "ifup -a" is run at boot is the
> system bus going to be running?

It in some cases, it should be - dbus is listed as starting at S12 and
networking at S40 in /etc/rc.* - however, as nothing in ubuntu-minimal
or ubuntu-standard appears to depend dbus, there is a very real
possibility that it will not be installed. dejavu anyone ?

> 
> For Intrepid timeframe would adding a check for the presence of
> /usr/sbin/NetworkManager be reasonable?

I think that is the better solution.

Regards,
Yagisan
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