Bug#763640: network-manager: should not put dhcp-client-identier in quotes

2014-10-01 Thread Johannes Rohr
Just found out what is going on here: src/dhcp-manager/nm-dhcp-dhclient-utils.c tries to determine whether the dhcp-client-identifier is a hex string or not. The string I used was something like 1:0:ab:aa:ab which is a perfectly acceptable hex string for dhclient, still the text identifies

Bug#763640: network-manager: should not put dhcp-client-identier in quotes

2014-10-01 Thread Johannes Rohr
Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.10.0-3 Severity: normal The latest update has broken the use of dhcp-client-identifier as a means of ensuring a fixed IP address. The reason seems to be that the dhclient.conf generated by NetworkManager puts the dhcp-client-identifier in quotes, whereas, as a