Re: HEAD on ubuntu breezy?

[Joe Barnett <thejoe gmail com>]

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.

-Joe