Re: Testing update wants to replace network-manager - will it be seamless?

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I can't afford to lose network access just at the moment, so should I
> > wait to do today's update on my testing system (amd64)?  I've
> > previously had troubles with network-manager but it's been working OK
> > lately.  Will the update, so far as anyone knows, preserve settings,
> > etc.?  Thanks for any guidance.
> >
> > Patrick
> >
>
> With what?  wicd works great here on Lenny, and perfect on my other
> Squeeze machine.  It was seemless.

I prefer the functionality (when it functions!) of network-manager.

In today's update, gnome-network-admin conflicts with
network-manager-gnome, which is therefore deleted, making
network-manager and a few other things no longer needed.  If I try to
hold gnome-network-admin, aptitude tells me that it "depends" on
gnome-system-tools (= 2.22.1-4).  (I guess what it should be telling
me is that I CAN'T hold it because the version of gnome-system-tools
about to be installed is incompatible with the older version of
gnome-network-admin.)  I can hold gnome-system-tools as well and keep
network manager, which I guess is what I'll do for now.

I guess the question is why gnome-network-admin conflicts with
network-manager-gnome in the first place, as it hasn't before.  But
that's life on a testing system.

Patrick