Bug 340329

Summary:	Remove obsolete networkmanager/nm-applet from tree (due to usage of obsolete policykit)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Robert Piasek (RETIRED) <dagger>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	marat, nirbheek, steev
Priority:	Highest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	340331

Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-10 11:49:37 UTC

These versions depend on obsolete policykit, and policykit-gnome and they need to be removed from Portage... right about now:

net-misc/networkmanager-0.7.1-r6
net-misc/networkmanager-0.7.2
gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.7.1-r3
gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.7.2

I will be lastriting them in 7 days if no response to this bug is given.

Comment 1 Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-10 11:54:27 UTC

Fine by me, though I haven't touched NM in at least a year.

Comment 2 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-11 10:01:38 UTC

++ from me, though the actual decision is in the hands of Robert ;)

Comment 3 Marat Radchenko 2010-11-06 11:07:14 UTC

Removal of 0.7.x makes me sad since networkmanager-0.8+ requires udev >= 145 which in turn requires kernel >= 2.6.22, but nokia n800/n810 that we have gentoo running on only have working 2.6.21 (and last udev that works with it is 141). Any ideas how to handle this?

Comment 4 Robert Piasek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-10 12:38:15 UTC

Personally it's fine by me.

What's the problem with upgrading to 2.6.28 or 2.6.35? I've got N900 running on both. I think that should be doable with n800 as well.

Comment 5 Marat Radchenko 2010-11-10 15:13:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> What's the problem with upgrading to 2.6.28 or 2.6.35? I've got N900 running on
> both. I think that should be doable with n800 as well.
> 

N8x0 has userspace-controlled charging. And required kernel support is only present in stock kernel (heavily patched linux-omap-2.6.21). Some efforts were made to forward-port it to modern kernels but none succeeded yet.

Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-10 18:57:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> N8x0 has userspace-controlled charging. And required kernel support is only
> present in stock kernel (heavily patched linux-omap-2.6.21). Some efforts were
> made to forward-port it to modern kernels but none succeeded yet.

Perhaps you should copy the old networkmanager ebuilds to the same overlay where the patched sources?

Either way, this is now fixed