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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Wondering if a news item is needed for NM update
From:       Thomas Kahle <tomka () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-11-30 21:28:26
Message-ID: 547B8BFA.20404 () gentoo ! org
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Hi,

On 29/11/14 11:23, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> We are wondering if a news item will be needed for people updating to
> latest networkmanager to remember them that they will need to
> reconfigure their networks *after* NM is updated. We currently show this
> messages in ebuild itself:
>    ewarn "Ifnet plugin is now disabled because of it being unattended"
>    ewarn "and unmaintained for a long time, leading to some unfixed bugs"
>    ewarn "and new problems appearing. We will now use upstream 'keyfile'"
>    ewarn "plugin."
>    ewarn "Because of this, you will likely need to reconfigure some of"
>    ewarn "your networks. To do this you can rely on Gnome control center,"
>    ewarn "nm-connection-editor or nmtui tools for example once updated"
>    ewarn "NetworkManager version is installed."
> 
> What do you think? :/

I think ewarn is fine.  NM seems not widespread enough to inform
everybody about this.

Cheers,
Thomas


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