Synopsis:
nmcli connection clone [--temporary] [id|uuid|path] <ID> <new name>
It copies the <ID> connection as <new name>. The command is very useful
if there is a connection, but another one is needed for a related
configuration. One can copy the existing profile and modify it for the
new situation.
For example:
$ nmcli con clone main-eth second-eth
$ nmcli con modify second-eth connection.interface-name em4
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757627
Example:
before:
$ nmcli c add type gsm con-nameX aaa ifname fsd
Error: 'ifname' argument is required.
now:
$ nmcli c add type gsm con-nameX aaa ifname fsd
Error: mandatory 'ifname' not seen before 'con-nameX'.
When a VLAN connection was added with command:
nmcli c add type vlan ifname v10 id 10 dev 00:11:22:33:44:55
nmcli tried to assign a byte-array value to the ethernet.mac-address
string property, resulting in a invalid connection which failed to
verify. Fix this and set the value as plain string.
The localization headers are now included via "nm-default.h".
Also fixes several places, where we wrongly included <glib/gi18n-lib.h>
instead of <glib/gi18n.h>. For example under "clients/" directory.
Rather than randomly including one or more of <glib.h>,
<glib-object.h>, and <gio/gio.h> everywhere (and forgetting to include
"nm-glib-compat.h" most of the time), rename nm-glib-compat.h to
nm-glib.h, include <gio/gio.h> from there, and then change all .c
files in NM to include "nm-glib.h" rather than including the glib
headers directly.
(Public headers files still have to include the real glib headers,
since nm-glib.h isn't installed...)
Also, remove glib includes from header files that are already
including a base object header file (which must itself already include
the glib headers).
Rename verify_master_for_slave(), since it does a lot more than just verifying
the master setting.
Make the type check optional and return the type of the connection that
matched. This makes it possible to omit setting the slave type on a command
line and still get the slave type right.
This separates setup of the master & slave type and addition of the wired
settings for "bond-slave", "bridge-slave" and "team-slave" connection types
from processing of slave type specific options.
A follow-up commit will make it possible to specify master (and slave type) for
any connection, not relying on "-slave" types.
Some master connetions are able to progress beyond activating/ip-config -- the
slaves might have appeared during the activation, or the connection doesn't
need slaves to obtain the configuration (it could be method=manual or shared).
Instead of having a get_func() and out2in_func(), have only one
get_func() that accepts an argument of the output format.
This way, a conversion to parsable input format, doesn't have to go
first thourgh get_func() and mangle the pretty string in out2in_func().
This fixes conversions via nmc_property_out2in_cut_paren().
For example, nmc_property_802_1X_get_private_key_password_flags()
would return a localized string _("0 (none)"). There is no guarantee
that out2in_func() would find the expected output format after
localizing.
This also fixes nmc_property_out2in_routes() which expected
a format "dst =" (would be "ip =") and expects mandatory
'nh' and 'mt' arguments. In fact, the regex didn't match and
nmc_property_out2in_routes() always failed.
While at it, also combine the implementation of
nmc_property_ipv4_get_routes() and nmc_property_ipv6_get_routes().
Valid values for enumeration-style properties are offered in TAB-completion in
the editor. Thus the user has a quick overview of the possible values and can
edit properties more easily.
Example:
$ nmcli con edit type wifi
nmcli> set wifi-sec.group <TAB>
ccmp tkip wep104 wep40
nmcli> ...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034126
Even Fedora is no longer shipping the WiMAX SDK, so it's likely we'll
eventually accidentally break some of the code in src/devices/wimax/
(if we haven't already). Discussion on the list showed a consensus for
dropping support for WiMAX.
So, remove the SDK checks from configure.ac, remove the WiMAX device
plugin and associated manager support, and deprecate all the APIs.
For compatibility reasons, it is still possible to create and save
WiMAX connections, to toggle the software WiMAX rfkill state, and to
change the "WIMAX" log level, although none of these have any effect,
since no NMDeviceWimax will ever be created.
nmcli was only compiling in support for most WiMAX operations when NM
as a whole was built with WiMAX support, so that code has been removed
now as well. (It is still possible to use nmcli to create and edit
WiMAX connections, but those connections will never be activatable.)
Let the server decide which device to use if the user didn't explicitly
specify the interface, wireless access point or a wimax nsp.
The server will just reuse the device for an already active connection
or potentially do a better guess.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730492
NetworkManager only responds to the last D-Bus call when called delete/down
for the same connection in quick succession. (It should be fixed later).
So do not issue the call multiple times to prevent that. Otherwise nmcli would
stall waiting for the response.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168657
