On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 11:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Hi, > > NetworkManager stopped touching /etc/hosts in late 2010 before the > NetworkManager 0.8.1 release. The code in nm-policy-hosts.c's only > purpose is to remove any of the entries that NetworkManager added long > ago. > > I think we're at the point where people have already upgraded to > NetworkManager 0.8.1 or later and thus this code would be a NOP. The > only risk is that some stale /etc/hosts entries will be left if you > upgrade from NM 0.8 or lower to anything higher than that. > > FWIW, Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) ships NM 0.8.0 and SLES11 ships NM 0.7.0, so > if users of these distros upgraded to a later NetworkManager they might > run into the stale entries issue if we remove this code from NM. But > given how old these distros are, it seems unlikely that users will do a > direct upgrade to something 4+ years newer... > > I'd like to remove src/nm-policy-hosts.c from NetworkManager. What does > everyone think?
I guess since nobody appears to care, I will do this and post the branch for review. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
