When performing NM package upgrade the new version of nmcli will be immediately
available while NM daemon will not, as it would not restart in order to avoid
to disrupt connectivity. This could create issues with tools leveraging
on nmcli output (till reboot). As apart from this case it is very unlikely
that a user can have this nmcli / NM daemon version mismatch situation,
the check could cause more harm than benefit in real user case
scenarios.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291785
The following settings are effectively identical:
dns=none,rc-manager=*any*
dns=none,rc-manager=unmanaged
dns=default,rc-manager=unmanaged
The new setting is only there for completeness and only
makes sense for a dns plugin.
We already have "rc-manager=file", rename "rc-manager=none" to "symlink"
because that better describes what it is actually doing. Of course, the
old name is still accepted.
Otherwise we fail since they don't exist. We have to carefully
implement an "or" condition for the cases of having prebuilt manpages
in a tarball, vs actually building them from source.
This way it's consistently used across all manual page without a need
for XSL templating.
Also, the entities file could in future possibly be used to template the
build-time configurables such as filesystem paths or bug tracker URL.
It's injected from the makefile, but not even used consistently or included in
the resulting render of manual page. Which is good, otherwise we'd have a
non-reproducible build with possible multilib conflicts if rendered around
midnight.
No functional change, just a readability improvement. No need to prefix
the variables with docbook_ and docbook_generated -- all manual pages
are generated from docbook.
The synopsis tag is not appropriate and doesn't look well in HTML and
inserts unnecessary line breaks in roff.
The <userinput> in <screen> suits this perfectly on the other hand.
We actually don't want to understand these options unless the legacy
*-slave types are used. The properties should be used directly instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748302
This basically undoes most of what has been done in commit 00e0fffea2.
Bump NM version number to 1.2 and add the project name to non-XML
pages. Also, update the dates to the date of the last non-trivial
change and update their format to YYYY-MM-DD, as specified by 'man
man-pages'.
Until now the internal DHCP client could start a DHCPv6 transaction
but was not able to parse the lease and pass the information back to
the core. Add the missing glue code to make this work.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762432
Choose a new logging format.
- the logging format must not be configurable and it must be the
same for all backends. It is neat that journal supports additional
fields, but an average user still posts the output of plain
journalctl, without "--output verbose" (which would also be hard
to read).
Also, we get used to a certain logging format, so having different
formats is confusing. If one format is better then another, it should
be used for all backends: syslog, journal and debug.
The only question is, what is the best format.
- the timestamp: I find it useful to see how much time between two
events passed. The timestamp printed by syslog doesn't have sufficient
granularity, and the internal journal fields are not readily available.
We used to print the timestamps for <error>, <debug> and <trace>,
but ommited them for <info> and <warn> levels. We now print them for
all levels, which has a uniform alignment.
- the location: the "[file:line] func():" part is mostly redundant
and results in wide lines. It also causes a misalignment of the
logging lines, or -- as I recently added alignment of the location --
it results in awkward whitespace and truncation.
But the location is really just necessary because our logging messages
are bad:
"<debug> [1456397604.038226] (9) 11-dhclient succeeded"
The solution to this is not
"<debug> [1456397604.038226] [nm-dispatcher.c:358] dispatcher_results_process(): (9) 11-dhclient succeeded"
but a properly worded message:
"<debug> [1456397604.038226] dispatcher: request #9, script 11-dhclient succeeded"
- logging-message: we need to write better logging messages.
I like some form of "tags" that are easy to grep:
"platform: signal: link changed: 4: ..."
Downside is, that this is not nice to read as a full sentence.
So, especially for <info> and <warn> logging, more human readable
messages are better.
We should find a compromise, where the log message explains what
happens, but is still concise and contains patterns that are easy
to grep and identify visually.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2016-February/msg00077.html
Some drivers (or things outside NM like 'powertop') may turn powersave
on, so don't touch it unless explicitly configured by user.
To achieve this, add new 'default' and 'ignore' options; the former
can be used to fall back to a globally configured setting, while the
latter tells NM not to touch the current setting.
When 'default' is specified, a missing global default configuration is
equivalent to 'ignore'.
It is possible to enable Wi-Fi power saving for all connections by
dropping a file in /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d with the following
content:
[connection]
wifi.powersave=3
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760125
Only install nm-settings-ifcfg-rh.5 man page if the ifcfg-rh
configuration plugin has been enabled.
But still add them to EXTRA_DIST so that the source tarball
contains the generated man-file, but it isn't installed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759823
