Bug 475760

Summary:	=net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.6.4[connection-sharing] should depend on =net-dns/dnsmasq-2.66[dbus,dhcp?]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ronald <ronald645>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ronald 2013-07-04 19:12:11 UTC

It will not fail to compile. However, it appears that networkmanager uses dbus to communicate with dnsmasq. Furthermore, for the clients to succesfully associate, dhcp is apparently required.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-09 18:14:38 UTC

Affirmative, dnsmasq uses these in its configure; so, if you happen to have the USE flags set differently in package.use you get inconsistent behavior. Assigned to maintaining herd.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-09-29 11:37:05 UTC

dhcp? won't work as networkmanager doesn't have that USE, it has one for each provider :/

Comment 3 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-10-01 22:20:28 UTC

networkmanager always launches /usr/sbin/dnsmasq with --dhcp-range and --dhcp-option flags, so there is a hard dependency on dnsmasq[dhcp] that we were missing.

However, as far as I can see, networkmanager does not use dnsmasq's dbus interface. You can easily check this: dnsmasq's dbus name is uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq, and the string "thekelleys" does not occur anywhere in networkmanager's source code.

+  01 Oct 2013; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
+  networkmanager-0.9.6.4.ebuild, networkmanager-0.9.6.4-r1.ebuild,
+  networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r3.ebuild, networkmanager-0.9.8.4.ebuild:
+  Depend on dnsmasq[dhcp] for connection sharing (bug #475760, thanks to
+  Ronald).