Re: Testing update wants to replace network-manager - will it be seamless?
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 19:17 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> >
> > With what? wicd works great here on Lenny, and perfect on my other
> > Squeeze machine. It was seemless.
Reading http://bugs.debian.org/460691 , It seems that the maintainer
decided that network-manager(-gnome) and gnome-network-admin should
conflict because they do opposite thing.
> 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 have removed network-manager-gnome* but not network-manager. My wired
network is still working (but I can't switch to wireless, etc...)
I'll reinstall network-manager-gnome as soon as I can.
*) make sure you get the .deb files before uninstalling the package,
just in case you want to reinstall it;)
> I guess the question is why gnome-network-admin conflicts with
> network-manager-gnome in the first place, as it hasn't before.
Same here.
> But that's life on a testing system.
Regards,
Franklin
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