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FS#25926 - [ypbind-mt] add support for dbus/networkmanager

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 14:17 GMT
Last edited by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Thursday, 15 September 2011, 22:42 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Rationale:

In my office I use NetworkManager and ypbind, and I have been having some issues with a flaky network connection (causing ypbind sometimes to immediately exit when started). From the manpage, it looks like ypbind might be a bit more intelligent if it has NM support (i.e. it will do the right thing if the network disappears and reappears, as well as not expecting the network to be set up when ypbind is started). I have not tested if this would solve my problem, but I figured the NM support would be nice in either case.

An auxiliary reason for wanting this is to optimize the boot time. Now I have a silly call to "nm-online" which slows down my boot in order to make sure ypbind is started only after the network is connected, with NM support in ypbind this would not be needed.

There might be downsides to adding this that I'm not aware of, sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere.
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Closed by  Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 22:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Friday, 09 September 2011, 02:25 GMT
That sounds good to me. (I noticed upstream disabled dbus-nm support by default but it doesn't seem to be because of any particularly bad reason.)

N.B. I don't use NIS anymore so I can hand ypbind-mt and yp-tools over to you if you'd like.
Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Sunday, 11 September 2011, 16:29 GMT
I could take over the packages, no problem (but if anyone else wants them that's fine too). I'll push a version with NM support soon-ish unless anyone objects.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Sunday, 11 September 2011, 20:52 GMT
Great. I've pushed to SVN a small cleanup to ypbind-mt's PKGBUILD and also enabled dbus-nm support (but I haven't compiled this). I have also orphaned ypbind-mt and yp-tools on archweb so they're all yours! :)

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