Bug 476170 – net-misc/networkmanager breaks with net-misc/dhcpcd >= 6

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) 2013-07-08 12:56:40 UTC]

NetworkManager has checks the output of dhcpcd --version in configure.ac and checks if it is version 4 or 5 (presumably as a >= 4.x check). This breaks with current dhcpcd 6.x in unstable. Extending the NM check by adding a '6' to the list of versions makes things work again.

[Comment 1 Paolo 2013-07-15 11:57:51 UTC]

I also confirm this bug! Downgrading dhcpcd to version 5.99.7 solved my problem!

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-15 18:14:19 UTC]

*** Bug 476874 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-15 18:33:24 UTC]

+*networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r2 (15 Jul 2013)
+
+  15 Jul 2013; Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]> +networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r2.ebuild,
+  -files/0001-core-runtime-detect-logind-and-ConsoleKit-3.patch,
+  -networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r1.ebuild:
+  Revision bump dropping runtime detect of logind as we won't be able to support
+  logind without systemd being running, and this keeps us more close to upstream
+  (preventing us from hitting any hypothetical problems that could arise from it
+  until accepted by upstream). Also force dhcpcd < 6 until upstream confirms
+  updating configure check is enough to properly work with newer versions.
+


Will wait a bit for upstream's opinion, maybe they should simply check for > 4 versions instead of forcing people to add every new version to the configure check :/

[Comment 4 Tassilo Horn 2013-07-16 06:31:15 UTC]

FWIW, adding the 6 to the check makes NetworkManager work again.  It also successfully obtains IPs for my network devices, so it seems to work just fine also with dhcpcd version 6.

But I agree, it's probably better to wait for the upstream's opinion.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-16 20:59:16 UTC]

*** Bug 476886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2013-07-20 00:24:02 UTC]

*** Bug 477434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-20 07:14:48 UTC]

  19 Jul 2013; Jonathan Callen <[e-mail]>
  networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r3.ebuild:
  Fix the deps for >=dhcpcd-6 support

*networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r3 (19 Jul 2013)

  19 Jul 2013; Jonathan Callen <[e-mail]>
  +files/networkmanager-0.9.8.2-allow-new-dhcpcd.patch,
  +networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r3.ebuild, networkmanager-0.9.8.2-r2.ebuild:
  Add missing eutils inherits; add patch and bump to allow building against
  dhcpcd 6.x (previously silently failed to use dhcpcd, but still compiled and
  installed)