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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12853

           Summary: NetworkManager
           Product: New Spells
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Spell Submission
        AssignedTo: sm-grimoire-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: timothee.lecomte AT ens.fr
 BugsThisDependsOn: 12831


Note : This is not a real spell submission, but rather a collection of remarks
to make NetworkManager compile from sources on Sourcemage, and make it work.
Once somebody decides to write a spell, this will hopefully help.

NetworkManager is a very nice project to manage network connections easily. It
is designed to run as a daemon, tracking the changes on your environment 
(wired
network plugged, wireless access point in your range) and adapt your network
configuration to them (ip, dns, dhcp, authentification, routes) with the few
user interaction.

The current version (0.6.4) can be made to work roughly on Sourcemage with the
steps :
* mandatory dependencies :
 - wpa_supplicant,
 - dhcdbd (modified and patched as per
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12831 ),
 - dbus,
 - hal,
 - iproute2,
 - wireless-tools,
 - libnl from http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl (there is no spell for that 
one;
by the way, the current version 1.0-pre5 misses a *.pc file that need to be
retrieved directly from the subversion repository),
 - and probably others that I have missed
* optional dependencies :
 - gnome (to have the nice applet that gives you info and control on the
configuration - the equivalent for kde is a separate package called 
knetworkmanager)
* somewhat conflicting :
 - dhcpcd (because we shouldn't have multiple dhcp clients running at the 
same time)

Then NetworkManager 0.6.4 can be compiled with :
    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-distro=arch
or if you don't have/want the gnome dependency :
    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-distro=arch 
--without-gnome

The option --sysconfdir=/etc will make the dbus files be installed in the
correct place instead of /usr/etc.
The option --with-distro=arch will force ./configure to believe that the 
distro
is Arch. If you choose an other supported distro, you will have to symlink
/usr/sbin/ip to /sbin/ip because the path is hardcoded in backend-specific
source files. This will be unnecessary in the next version (0.6.5) for any
distro choice.

This should give you a working installation of NetworkManager that you can 
play
with. See 'man NetworkManager' for details then !

TODO : NetworkManager will install initscripts for Arch (or whatever distro
you've chosen in --with-distro), we would need Sourcemage initscripts

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