[Mageia-dev] Drakx-net or NetworkManager for Mageia 2

Tue Nov 22 04:11:49 CET 2011

On 11/21/2011 09:41 PM, John Balcaen wrote:
+>
+> I did not say anything else.
+> I personally don't use the rhplugin or the mdv before but always
+> switch to keyfile.
+
+Please understand that I have *never* modified any Mageia-installed NM 
+configuration file.  I don't know what you mean by the mdv/rh/keyfile 
+reference.  I've been through enough of this to understand that there's 
+an NM config file that specifies a shell script file that comes in an 
+*rh* (RedHat) and an *mdv* versions.  I have no idea what "keyfile" 
+refers to.in this context.
+
+>> And all of this goes to Cauldron, not 1.  I have never done an install of 1,
+>> but always Cauldron with daily updates and periodic (~ every three weeks or
+>> so ) fresh installs.
+> On this initial bug report Mageia was providing the « old » 0.8.x
+> version which in fact was only available in mageia 1 since dmorgan
+> updated it to the 0.9 beta series once he started the migration to
+> gnome3.
+
+Fine.  I'm just pointing out that I wasn't testing with backlevelled 
+code, but with Cauldron as current at the time.
+
+>
+> I wrote too fast here.
+> I meant that you never wrote somewhere that you choose to use nm
+> (especially since i can notice that ifplugd was playing with nm in the
+> logs).
+
+Umm, no, I never had to write that anywhere for the simple reason that I 
+*didn't* choose to use NM.  Mageia chose to use it for me, because GNOME 
+3 required it.  I didn't do one blessed thing to  encourage the use of 
+NM in any way.
+
+>> I agree but realize that if I have to use this to begin with, there's an NM
+>> bug that is potentially severe enough to prevent distro deployment.
+> I do understand&  that's why i suggested you to use the keyfile plugin
+> in #865 instead of the « ifcfg-mdv plugin not maintained anymore in
+> 0.8.x » or the rh plugin which also lacks some functionnality.
+
+Which, referring to the same bug report, I did and reported  the 
+results.  If there was a lesson to be learned there, it didn't get  
+fixed in whatever version of the plugin Mageia uses by default.
+
+>> Really, guys, I sympathize with the desire to move to something newer
+>> supported by others.  But you have to be ready to deal with the issue of
+>> back-breakage.
+> I personally don't care if Mageia wants to switch to nm or stick to
+> drakx-net, i was here to comment some bugs linked by you here.
+> Nm is provided by mageia and it's far than enough for me because i'm
+> able to use it without problem since Mageia 1. So as long as we have
+> someone to deal/maintain with drakx-net we can still follow this road.
+> [...]
+
+I'm fine with that...
+
+> Again here could you please test with the *keyfile* plugin&  if it's
+> still broken with the native plugin report it upstream so we can get a
+> bug fix for it ? (yes yet another fingers @ upstream :p )
+
+I'll include that test in my next round.
+