Re: v1.0.8 & DUID

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 14:32 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> Although there is a v1.0.8 tag in the NM git, there is still hope since 
> there has not been a Release Announcement yet.

Hmm, I don't see a 1.0.8 or a 1.0.2.  The latest release was 0.9.6.4,
and the  next release will be 0.9.8.  This next release will be from
this branch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/log/?h=nm-0-9-8

> I would like to encourage the inclusion of two patches into v1.0.2 
> before it ships:
>
> commit c0efef8c92aecb23df7dcbf3670236719d097873
>      dhcp: add special machine-id parse functio
>
> commit 1b1b4bd91c29425c25e8e979cd77b7a67deb9bf5
>      dhcp: write DUID out to lease file if not already present

I actually pushed these to that branch and master yesterday after
testing those patches and ensuring that my modifications to them were
correct.

Dan

> Without these the DUID support just does not work.
>
> And, speak of DUID ... I am planning to write a small utility program to 
> help with DUIDs.  It would output two lines.  The first line with be the 
> default-duid in "dhclient format" and the second with be the hex-string 
> equivalent for use with libvirt and dnsmasq. By default, it would 
> generate DUID-UUID based on the machine-id. Optionally it would product 
> DUID-LL and DUID-LLT format when the MAC is provided.
>
> I am going to do this for myself but is there interest in including such 
> a utility in the NM package?
>
> Gene
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