Re: HEAD on ubuntu breezy?

[Joe Barnett <thejoe gmail com>]

On 6/3/05, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 

After minor modifications to the "-x option patch", I've got NM
working great on ubuntu breezy.

if anyone wants to see the modified patch, i've posted it to:

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11461

Thanks Dan!

-Joe