Re: HEAD on ubuntu breezy?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Joe Barnett wrote:

> On 6/3/05, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Joe Barnett wrote:
> > > Has anyone gotten head NM to work on ubuntu breezy?  the dhcp client
> > > package claims it has the "redhat patches for dhcdbd", but if i set up
> > > dhcdbd (from http://people.ubuntu.com/~thom/dhcdbd-1.5.tar.gz), it
> > > seems to be passing an argument that dhclient doesn't understand.
> > > looking at it a little bit more, it seems the "-x" option is not
> > > recognized by dhclient, but removing the -x from the arguments list
> > > (by editing dhcdbd.c) doesn't result in a dhcp lease when dhcdbd
> > > invokes dhclient, either...
> > 
> > There is a bit of architectural stuff in dhclient and dhclient-script that work
> > with dhcdbd.  First, there's a patch to dhclient to accept the -x argument and
> > pass _all_ dhcp options to dhclient-script.  Second, there are changes to
> > dhclient-script to send those options to dhcdbd with dbus-send.  These changes
> > are in Fedora Core dhclient RPMS as of 3.0.2-12 and later.  You'll have to pick
> > up the patch from there.  I can keep pushing Jason Vas Dias to get the patches
> > upstream, but for the moment they are local.
> > 
> > However, I think most everyone will agree that using dhclient is better than
> > using the old internal DHCP client.  Furthermore, if people would like to use
> > Simon Kelley's DHCP client we can make NetworkManager work with that too.  Its
> > lighterweight and should do the same thing.
> > 
> > > Also, what is the "preferred" way for having nm-applet run?  It gets
> > > put in libexec, so I assume the user isn't supposed to run it
> > > directly, but I'm not sure what the user IS supposed to run ...
> > 
> > Technically, you add it to you gnome session, or use gnome-session-properties'
> > "Startup Programs" tab to make it start every time if you're not using session
> > saving.  You should only have to run it once (to add it to the session if you
> > _are_ using session saving) or add it to "Startup Programs" in
> > gnome-session-properties once, and then you shouldn't have to touch it again.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, there isn't a good automatic way to add stuff to the GNOME
> > session at this time.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> 
> Thanks Dan,
> 
> Looks like the ubuntu packages picked up the dhclient-script changes,
> but not the -x argument patch.  If I can't get that patch to work,
> I'll try Simon Kelley's dhcp client.  I'll look into those when I get
> a chance, and report my results.

Simon's client is going to need changes to NetworkManager though, unless he used 
the same dbus API that Jason did for dhclient...  What I meant to say is that 
I'm happy to add code (as time permits) for Simon's client if people want to use 
it.

Dan