Re: HEAD on ubuntu breezy?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

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