** Description changed:
For snappy (at first at least) we need to provide netplan in xenial, as
for the first snappy GA release we must not use any PPAs any more.
netplan's NetworkManager backend depends on two patches to read
configuration and connections from /run/NetworkManager/. These will need
to be backported for full netplan support; but they are not required for
snappy as this will use a snapped NM. However, this will need a
temporary hack
(https://code.launchpad.net/%7Emorphis/netplan/+git/netplan/+merge/306607)
until snaps can actually properly support OS components like
NetworkManager.
+ PATCHES:
+
https://git.launchpad.net/~network-manager/network-manager/+git/ubuntu/commit/?h=xenial&id=6dcdb85
+
REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
netplan: The risk for existing installations is practically zero as nplan
does not exist in xenial yet and thus will not be pulled in during upgrades.
NetworkManager: Nothing in xenial expects/uses /run/NetworkManager/ and as
it's an ephemeral tmpfs there is no risk of existing files there. If the
patches are broken it could in theory happen that NetworkManager also does not
properly read files from /etc/NetworkManager/ any more, so the -proposed
package must verify that existing connections still work.
TEST PLAN:
1. Run "NetworkManager --print-config" and save the output.
2. Install the proposed NetworkManager and confirm that existing connections
(from /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections) still work.
3. Run "NetworkManager --print-config" again and verify that the output is
the same as in step 1.
4. netplan has a very comprehensive integration test suite run as
autopkgtest, which covers NetworkManager (including the /run patches) and
network. Confirm that it succeeds.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
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Backport netplan to xenial
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