Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.2
Severity: important
Tags: patch ipv6
Dear Maintainer,
I wish to use dhcpcd with Network Manager, because it has better support
for IPv6 than dhclient (in this case I'm after stable privacy addresses
of RFC7217). Upstream has support for using dhcpcd, but the Debian
package is built with dhcpcd disabled.
Not supporting dhcpcd is clearly a bug, since the manual page
NetworkManager.conf(5) states the following:
dhcp=dhclient | dhcpcd
This key sets up what DHCP client NetworkManager will
use. Presently dhclient and dhcpcd are supported. The
client configured here should be available on your sys‐
tem too. If this key is missing, available DHCP clients
are looked for in this order: dhclient, dhcpcd.
Luckily, it seems to be easy to fix this. Just add dhcpcd5 as build dep
and pass the --with-dhcpcd option to configure. I will include a patch
for this.
ps. I tested this with the newest version of network-manager from Ubuntu
Trusty, but decided to report directly to Debian, since the Debian build
log for network-manager seems to indicate that dhcpcd support is still
disabled on the newest version of the package (1.0.10-1).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers trusty-updates
APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500,
'trusty'), (100, 'trusty-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-74-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii dbus 1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3
ii dnsmasq-base 2.68-1ubuntu0.1
ii iproute2 3.12.0-2ubuntu1
ii iputils-arping 3:20121221-4ubuntu1.1
ii isc-dhcp-client 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.3
ii libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6.6
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.2-0ubuntu1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 1:204-5ubuntu20.15
ii libmm-glib0 1.0.0-2ubuntu1.1
ii libnl-3-200 3.2.21-1
ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.21-1
ii libnl-route-3-200 3.2.21-1
ii libnm-glib4 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.2
ii libnm-util2 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.2
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-4ubuntu3.14.04.1
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.44.2-1ubuntu2
ii libsystemd-login0 204-5ubuntu20.15
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6
ii multiarch-support 2.19-0ubuntu6.6
ii policykit-1 0.105-4ubuntu3.14.04.1
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.2
ii udev 204-5ubuntu20.15
ii wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1.4
Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii crda 1.1.2-1ubuntu2
ii iptables 1.4.21-1ubuntu1
ii modemmanager 1.0.0-2ubuntu1.1
ii network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.4
ii network-manager-pptp 0.9.8.2-1ubuntu2
ii ppp 2.4.5-5.1ubuntu2.2
ii systemd-services 204-5ubuntu20.15
Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn avahi-autoipd <none>
ii python 2.7.5-5ubuntu3
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile,ofono
dns=dnsmasq
dhcp=dhcpcd
[ifupdown]
managed=false
-- no debconf information
diff -urN network-manager-0.9.8.8.orig/debian/control network-manager-0.9.8.8/debian/control
--- network-manager-0.9.8.8.orig/debian/control 2014-04-09 16:41:19.000000000 +0300
+++ network-manager-0.9.8.8/debian/control 2016-01-07 02:03:02.709322388 +0200
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
libmm-glib-dev,
gtk-doc-tools,
isc-dhcp-client (>= 4.1.1-P1-4),
+ dhcpcd5,
dbus-test-runner,
dbus,
valac (>= 0.17.1.24),
diff -urN network-manager-0.9.8.8.orig/debian/rules network-manager-0.9.8.8/debian/rules
--- network-manager-0.9.8.8.orig/debian/rules 2014-04-09 16:41:19.000000000 +0300
+++ network-manager-0.9.8.8/debian/rules 2016-01-07 02:04:11.189608388 +0200
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/NetworkManager \
--with-resolvconf=/sbin/resolvconf \
--with-dhclient=/sbin/dhclient \
+ --with-dhcpcd=/sbin/dhcpcd \
--with-iptables=/sbin/iptables \
--with-crypto=nss \
--with-session-tracking=systemd \
