[Resolvconf-devel] Planned change to resolvconf
Thomas Hood
jdthood at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 09:32:37 UTC 2011
Hi Ubuntu resolvconf maintainers,
At http://packages.qa.debian.org/resolvconf I read resolvconf_1.47ubuntu1-1.patch
to see what Ubuntu does to the package. I found your name in there so I thought
I'd write you to give you advanced warning of a planned change to the Debian package.
In the next release I am planning to move the code that configures symlinks and
directories. Currently it is in the the postinst but I will move it to the preinst.
This will allow /sbin/resolvconf to be run successfully as soon as it appears.
The postinst will trigger an update of the resolv.conf file. This should solve
Debian bug #551999/#563386.
The latter bugs arise in the following way.
* User does apt-get install dnsmasq resolvconf
* dnsmasq is unpacked
* resolvconf is unpacked
* dnsmasq postinst calls /sbin/resolvconf which reports missing run directory
* resolvconf postinst creates run directory and writes resolv.conf which is
missing dnsmasq's 127.0.0.1 address
After the change the following should occur.
* User does apt-get install dnsmasq resolvconf
* resolvconf preinst creates run directory
* dnsmasq is unpacked
* resolvconf is unpacked
* dnsmasq postinst calls /sbin/resolvconf
* resolvconf postinst writes resolv.conf which correctly includes dnsmasq's address
Comments welcome.
--
Thomas Hood
Debian resolvconf maintainers <resolvconf-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
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