Re: ANN: NetworkManager 0.9.9.95 (0.9.10-beta1) released

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 10:54 +0200, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 17:36 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 00:01 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > Am 17.06.2014 19:54, schrieb Dan Winship:
> > > > On 06/17/2014 10:50 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > > Looking through the changes in configure.ac, I notice that libteam is a
> > > > > new (optional) dependency.
> > > > > Which of the new functionality depends on libteam?
> > > >
> > > > "team" devices. (The new half-kernel/half-userland replacement for the
> > > > "bond" driver.)
> > >
> > > That's where my question was aiming at: does the bonding support in NM
> > > require libteam/teamd or does it also work with kernel-style bonding?
> >
> > Bond and Team are separate device types in NetworkManager, and they can
> > be used independently of each other.  Using the old-style kernel bond
> > devices does not require Team functionality to be enabled.
>
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>
> Btw. would be nice to make team-devices a plugin too.
>
>
> For example on Fedora and RHEL we build with 
> "BuildRequires: teamd-devel"
> thus all NetworkManager packages depends on teamd package.
>
> I will craft a branch for that...

Yeah, great idea.

Dan