Re: Compile networkmanager without x-sessions.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 15:04 +0200, Anders Gnistrup wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a embedded arm device, where I want to use the Networkmanager. The distribution is the ubuntu arm, and I have tried ti apt-get hte needed packages.

I would suggest using NetworkManager 0.9 (recently released) since that
has changes that make it much more amenable to resource-constrained
systems.

> In total it does work and the client handles the system connection fine (there is no x-session, and only one use i runlevel 3)
> The problem is that a LOT of disk space is wasted filed with packaged I do not need.

Which packages do you not need?  NM 0.9 allows compiling out support for
a number of things, including PolicyKit, PPP, and WiMAX.

> So I got the idea to compile the NetworkManger from scratch and disable usage of X (and x-session).

You shouldn't need any X session to run NM, as the core daemon itself
doesn't require anything running in a GUI environment.  It can be
controlled with nmcli or plain D-Bus, and configuration can be done
through config files in /etc/NetworkManager
(or /etc/network/interfaces).

Let us know if you have any more questions...

Dan

> Is this possible or feasible?
> Or is the idea just plain stupid.
> 
> /AG
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