Re: [RFC] remove /etc/hosts cleaning code

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 11:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> NetworkManager stopped touching /etc/hosts in late 2010 before the
> NetworkManager 0.8.1 release.  The code in nm-policy-hosts.c's only
> purpose is to remove any of the entries that NetworkManager added long
> ago.
>
> I think we're at the point where people have already upgraded to
> NetworkManager 0.8.1 or later and thus this code would be a NOP.  The
> only risk is that some stale /etc/hosts entries will be left if you
> upgrade from NM 0.8 or lower to anything higher than that.
>
> FWIW, Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) ships NM 0.8.0 and SLES11 ships NM 0.7.0, so
> if users of these distros upgraded to a later NetworkManager they might
> run into the stale entries issue if we remove this code from NM.  But
> given how old these distros are, it seems unlikely that users will do a
> direct upgrade to something 4+ years newer...
>
> I'd like to remove src/nm-policy-hosts.c from NetworkManager.  What does
> everyone think?

I guess since nobody appears to care, I will do this and post the branch
for review.

Dan