[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications] Systemd or not systemd

Fri Jul 15 01:44:18 CEST 2011

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 20:37, Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
+
+> On Thursday 14 July 2011 20:08:17 Eugeni Dodonov wrote:
+> [...]
+> >
+> > This is how they work now, except that in mageia networkmanager uses
+> keyfile
+> > plugin instead of networkmanager-mdv (which is a bit outdated at the
+> > moment) so the network configuration is different among them.
+> Well for cauldron nm-mdv is not available at all because nm 0.9 is quite
+> different than 0.8. From a fast look i guess it should not be too difficult
+> to
+> adapt your patch starting from the fedora/redhat plugin .
+> Regarding a total switch to nm, if i'm not wrong the most problematic part
+> is
+> the installer integration.
+> Maybe it's possible to adapt our draktools to edit/drop files directly in
+> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ if we're sticking with the native
+> plugin (keyfile).
+>
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+-- 
+Eugeni Dodonov
+http://eugeni.dodonov.net/
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