Please support resolvconf

[David Paleino]

Hello,
Debian uses a mechanism called "resolvconf" to use different DNS servers on different interfaces / connections. I've made a patch to support this, see attached.

I've applied it to the 1.5.9-2 package in Debian/sid.

Kindly,
David Paleino
Debian Maintainer of wicd

[Cyril Lavier (davromaniak)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

I think this could be usefull to make wicd support resolvconf.

So I confirm this bug.

Bye.

[Cyril Lavier (davromaniak)]

But Feature Freeze for jaunty is already behind us, so maybe for Karmic, :D.

[Cyril Lavier (davromaniak)]

Sorry, I'm a little tired tonight.

You provide a patch, so please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess in order to see the procedure for integrating your patch.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Thanks for the patch.
I attached the Ubuntu package too (wicd is the project, wicd (ubuntu) is the ubuntu package).

[David Paleino (dpaleino)]

Cyril, the patch is for upstream, as Didier already pointed out ;)

[Cyril Lavier (davromaniak)]

Yes David, my brain is totally messed up tonight, I think I will calm down bug reporting and commenting for tonight.

[Robby Workman (rworkman)]

David,

Any chance of pulling the experimental branch and working up a patch for it? The 1.5.x is pretty much in a -stable maintenance mode, but this is fair game for the upcoming 1.6.x series...

[David Paleino (dpaleino)]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:29:27 -0000, Robby Workman wrote:

> David,

Hello Robby,

> Any chance of pulling the experimental branch and working up a patch for
> it?

I'm not at all familiar with 1.6 code, never looked at it :)

> The 1.5.x is pretty much in a -stable maintenance mode, but this is fair game
> for the upcoming 1.6.x series...

Ah, I see. Well, at least Debian users are having resolvconf on 1.5.9 now ;), I
will take a look at 1.6 code ASAP -- but I should just familiarize a bit with
it before.

Ciao,
David

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[Dan O'Reilly (oreilldf)]

I actually ported the fix over to 1.6 yesterday. It still needs some testing though, and I need to decide if it should bet possible to use /etc/resolv.conf directly if resolvconf is installed.

[Dan O'Reilly (oreilldf)]

This got delivered to the 1.6 branch a while ago.

[Robby Workman (rworkman)]

Closing ; this is fixed in the 1.6 alpha release

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Set as Fix Released as the 1.6.x version is now on Ubuntu Karmic.