Hi Simon,
On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 22:44 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > I believe NM does not have a fixed configuration format, but only a dbus > API. It's perfectly fine to edit configuration files for NM manually, see man:nm-settings-keyfile(5). > Our best bet there would be a firstboot unit, but I have no idea > whether accessing NM from a unit attached to firstboot is safe or leads > to a dependency loop[1]. So this is not required and seems overly complicated. > I'm not sure if systemd-networkd is much happier long-term if we write > its configuration from a shell script, we'd need to get some commitment > from upstream that this is an interface, not an implementation detail, > at least. This seems similar to writing .service units via a shell script (or manually) which doesn't seem to be a problem. Or similar to writing /etc/network/interfaces: are we really sure this is safe long-term? We probably should not bet on that! Ansgar
