[Mageia-dev] dhclient lease files location

Wed Feb 13 09:56:50 CET 2013

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:50:53AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> What is also strange however is that NM doesn't build for me here. Seems
+> this was due to a commit by Olav to update it to 0.9.7.995
+> 
+> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=388631
+> 
+> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/networkmanager/current/SPECS/networkmanager.spec?r1=388631&r2=388630&pathrev=388631
+> 
+> 
+> Interestingly the commit message is "SILENT: undo version change". Not
+> quite sure what to make of that. Can you elaborate on the version change
+> Olav? Perhaps I missed a mail somewhere asking for help rediffing a
+> patch or something? My memory is buggy :p
+
+NetworkManager uses a stupid version numbering. It should have stayed
+with 0.9.6.x. My bot accidentally upgraded it to 0.9.7.x, which is
+wrong.
+
+> Anyway, going back to the 0.9.6.4 version (which is what is available as
+> built) and I find this via a quick grep:
+[..]
+> I'd like to see what Olav had in mind with that commit first tho'. Seems
+> there are a few changes in NM that will mean we have to refactor things
+> a bit (it should use NMSTATEDIR in the newer code like you say and thus
+> be in it's own directory).
+
+My idea was to undo the version upgrade. 0.9.6.x was released with GNOME
+3.6.x, so I didn't want to create a broken combination.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+