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

Tue Nov 22 04:38:18 CET 2011

Le mardi 22 novembre 2011 00:11:49, Frank Griffin a écrit :
+> 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.
+Ok so in fact you did not follow my suggestion here 
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865#c1 ?
+
+[...]
+> 
+> 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 never wrote that you choose nm simply that you get affected by the « non 
+support » of ifcfg-mdv initially.
+After seems like you also hit a bug in drakx-net which switch to nm per 
+default  (& fixed since today by blino)
+
+
+
+> >> 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.
+hum ?
+The only comment here was that :
+1) ifcfg-mdv plugin was broken (& now in fact dead in mageia 2+)
+
+2) try ifcfg-rh to see if it's also affected  ( 
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865#c6 ) 
+you did not try arguing that the maintainer should report it upstream.
+ ( https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865#c8 ) which is quite difficult if 
+the maintainer (well in this case there is no maintainer so it's even more 
+difficult) is not able to reproduce simply because for example he does not have 
+the same wifi card. That's why i suggest you to report it upstream since you 
+should be able to answer questions from upstream if needed.
+
+3) keyfile is not affected by the hostname bug in #865
+
+However when i suggested to switch to keyfile (on irc indeed not on mageia 
+mailing list) instead of the ifcfg-rh plugin or (any others non native 
+plugins) i was told that we need to support ifcfg (which is right indeed)
+
+So in summary we have a working plugin (keyfile) but we're not able to use it 
+because we need to support ifcfg- files so we're stick with the redhat plugin 
+for now until we found someone able to fix the missing functionnalities in this 
+plugin.
+
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-ID: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
+