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resolvconf package

  1. Bug #923685
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 923685

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 923685] Re: New resolver package overwrites manually created resolv.conf on server

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:53:00PM -0000, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Can we boil the proposal down to this?:

> If there is nameserver information in the original /etc/resolv.conf and
> there is no physical interface marked "auto" in /e/n/i for which there
> is a logical interface definition in /e/n/i that could supply nameserver
> information dynamically (i.e., either a logical interface with the
> "dhcp" method or a logical interface with the "static" method and "dns-"
> lines) then adjust link-tail-to-original's default value to "true" and
> its priority to "critical" ("will probably break the system without
> user intervention").

Ubuntu policy prohibits debconf prompting on the desktop as part of the
standard upgrade. We need to figure out how to make this not break the
system without having to prompt the user about it. (AFAICS, the proposal
above would result in prompts for any desktop system that is using NM
exclusively for network configuration - which would mean there are no auto
interfaces in /e/n/i.)

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