Re: freeze breakage request

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 21:16 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:41 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> > Hi release team,
> > 
> > I'm requesting permission for committing these two patches
> > 
> > The patch for gnome-system-tools is for handling correctly the network
> > interfaces status at boot time,
> 
> What does this do exactly? Do you mean that inactive connections will be
> shown as connected, or vice-versa?

The backends handle whether the interface is currently enabled and
whether it's enabled when the computer boots [1], at some point the
support in the frontends for the latter broke, but the former works fine

	Regards


[1] In other words, it's the auto stanza in debian, ONBOOT in redhat-ish
systems, etc...

> 
> >  since it was handled in the previous
> > stable releases of g-s-t, I'd say that it's a small regression.
> > 
> > The patch for system-tools-backends contains a fix for an annoying bug
> > that's mostly triggered by the first patch, in the current behavior, the
> > interfaces that have changed their configuration are enabled
> > automatically, but should not be enabled if it's disabled
> > 
> > Both patches have been tested to death, and the changes are pretty
> > trivial, may I commit them? :)
> > 
> > 	Regards
> > 
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