| Summary: | net-misc/networkmanager should install conf.d examples | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) <zerochaos> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | juippis |
| Priority: | Normal | Keywords: | PullRequest |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/nm-conf.d/31-mac-addr-change.conf | ||
| See Also: | https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/14365 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 692846 | ||
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Description
Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos)
2019-12-10 16:47:50 UTC
wpa_supplicant > 2.6 uses a random mac address for scanning by default and causes bugs like : https://bugs.gentoo.org/692846 Related debian bugs, which appear to be unsolved still: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=835822 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=835553 Related ubuntu bug, which appear to be unsolved still: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1681513 Related upstream bugs which appears to be ignored for years: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771966 Bug from upstream recommending distros install the fix I'm asking for: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777523 I added 'examples' USE flag that installs these files as: /usr/share/doc/networkmanager-1.20.6-r1/examples/nm-conf.d /usr/share/doc/networkmanager-1.20.6-r1/examples/nm-conf.d/30-anon.conf.bz2 /usr/share/doc/networkmanager-1.20.6-r1/examples/nm-conf.d/31-mac-addr-change.conf.bz2 They are present in the 1.18.4 tarball as well, would this be sufficient for you Rick? No, it's really not. Tons of users have these broken drivers and it hurts nothing to install the examples where they will be read by default. At *minimum* 31-mac-addr-change.conf is a bug fix for all users with those drivers *and* we need to add the wl driver to that file to include those poor souls. I would strongly recommend additionally installing 30-anon.conf as mac address tracking is such a real threat that Apple, Android, and even Windows 10, all randomize their mac addresses by default now. Not sure why Linux should be left out of the party. If you want to get into serious tin foil hat stuff you can find me on irc. Basically this is what I'm thinking: --- networkmanager-1.18.4-r1.ebuild 2019-12-11 12:23:06.939655587 -0500 +++ networkmanager-1.18.4-r2.ebuild 2019-12-11 15:38:12.437266004 -0500 @@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ if multilib_is_native_abi; then # Install completions at proper place, bug #465100 gnome2_src_install completiondir="$(get_bashcompdir)" + insinto /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d + doins "${S}"/examples/nm-conf.d/{30-anon,31-mac-addr-change}.conf else local targets=( install-libLTLIBRARIES I have tested it and it works as expected. Also of note, per lddtree: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager directly links to /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so Probably should add that as a DEP/RDEP Since this was questioned on IRC, the location I'm installing the files to here *IS* read by network manager by default and this affects the default operation of network manager. Obviously I assert that it changes defaults for the better, but the point that I am changing the default behavior is important to note. nspr4 comes from nss.pc pkg-config file; nss is properly depended on already, rest is recursive RDEPEND and usual pkg-config-ery The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2587f0225c6aaa23fcef6a09f4e92c3b2fda3769 commit 2587f0225c6aaa23fcef6a09f4e92c3b2fda3769 Author: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-19 19:25:51 +0000 Commit: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-19 19:28:18 +0000 net-misc/networkmanager: improve privacy, iwd1 compat, USE=polkit honor Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702476 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702900 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/704810 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.79, Repoman-2.3.12 Signed-off-by: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> .../networkmanager/files/1.18.4-iwd1-compat.patch | 81 +++++ .../networkmanager/networkmanager-1.18.4-r2.ebuild | 349 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 430 insertions(+) well privacy is one thing good thing, but it is a bit unfair to "destroy" static ip configuration within a home network, by random macs without a silent hint why suddenly the machines or not accessable anymore? why not install those file to /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/01-gentoo-default.conf that the user aware of this and can override it or handle it via dispatch-conf? at least an einfo "Mac addresses are random by default" would be helpful |