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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110714/0d365b5f/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110714/0d365b5f/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c75e41502 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110714/0d365b5f/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 20:37, Balcaen John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikala@mageia.org">mikala@mageia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> + +On Thursday 14 July 2011 20:08:17 Eugeni Dodonov wrote:<br> +[...]<br> +<div class="im">><br> +> This is how they work now, except that in mageia networkmanager uses keyfile<br> +> plugin instead of networkmanager-mdv (which is a bit outdated at the<br> +> moment) so the network configuration is different among them.<br> +</div>Well for cauldron nm-mdv is not available at all because nm 0.9 is quite<br> +different than 0.8. From a fast look i guess it should not be too difficult to<br> +adapt your patch starting from the fedora/redhat plugin .<br> +Regarding a total switch to nm, if i'm not wrong the most problematic part is<br> +the installer integration.<br> +Maybe it's possible to adapt our draktools to edit/drop files directly in<br> +/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ if we're sticking with the native<br> +plugin (keyfile).<br></blockquote><div><br>I actually vote for keyfile plugin, because it is most stable and upstream. NM-mdv would be the best solution if it would be incorporated upstream, but it still needs lots of work to get there.<br> + +<br>One big issue with NM only by default is the installation via boot.iso and similar methods, and also overall installation via network - while it is certainly possible to configure networkmanager from the console, it is by no means easy. This was not the case for Mandriva desktop, but I believe that it is one nice feature to have in Mageia. <br clear="all"> + +</div></div><br>-- <br>Eugeni Dodonov<br><a href="http://eugeni.dodonov.net/" target="_blank">http://eugeni.dodonov.net/</a><br> diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110714/0d365b5f/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110714/0d365b5f/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c75e41502 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110714/0d365b5f/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 20:37, Balcaen John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikala@mageia.org">mikala@mageia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> + +On Thursday 14 July 2011 20:08:17 Eugeni Dodonov wrote:<br> +[...]<br> +<div class="im">><br> +> This is how they work now, except that in mageia networkmanager uses keyfile<br> +> plugin instead of networkmanager-mdv (which is a bit outdated at the<br> +> moment) so the network configuration is different among them.<br> +</div>Well for cauldron nm-mdv is not available at all because nm 0.9 is quite<br> +different than 0.8. From a fast look i guess it should not be too difficult to<br> +adapt your patch starting from the fedora/redhat plugin .<br> +Regarding a total switch to nm, if i'm not wrong the most problematic part is<br> +the installer integration.<br> +Maybe it's possible to adapt our draktools to edit/drop files directly in<br> +/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ if we're sticking with the native<br> +plugin (keyfile).<br></blockquote><div><br>I actually vote for keyfile plugin, because it is most stable and upstream. NM-mdv would be the best solution if it would be incorporated upstream, but it still needs lots of work to get there.<br> + +<br>One big issue with NM only by default is the installation via boot.iso and similar methods, and also overall installation via network - while it is certainly possible to configure networkmanager from the console, it is by no means easy. This was not the case for Mandriva desktop, but I believe that it is one nice feature to have in Mageia. <br clear="all"> + +</div></div><br>-- <br>Eugeni Dodonov<br><a href="http://eugeni.dodonov.net/" target="_blank">http://eugeni.dodonov.net/</a><br> |