Barry writes:
On 11 May 2022, at 19:34, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: After peering at "dnf search" results I finally found the actual name of the sub-package: NetworkManager-initscripts-ifcfg-rh-1:1.36.4-1.fc36.x86_64 Now I finally have all my complicated bridges and wot-not back and network functioning as it did on f35. I don't suppose there is an automated tool to convert complicated ifcfg files to NetworkManager keyfiles is there?Yes there is a tool. See this article for details.<URL:https://fedoramagazine.org/converting-networkmanager-from-ifcfg-to- keyfiles/>https://fedoramagazine.org/converting-networkmanager-from-ifcfg-to- keyfiles/
That article says: # Starting with Fedora Linux 36, the ifcfg support will no longer be present # in new installations. If you’re still using ifcfg files, do not worry — # the existing systems will keep it on upgrades. Nevertheless, you can still # decide to uninstall it and carry your configuration over to keyfiles. Keep # on reading to learn how.However, Tom seems to be reporting that everything broke for him, until he hunted down the package and manually installed it.
Reading further into that article, I am informed about "nmcli connection migrate".
Checking my F35's man page, there's no mention of this option, so this appears to be new in F36.
So, the migration process appears to be: 1) Update F35 to F36 2) After a reboot things will be broken because ifcfg support is gone 3) Run "nmcli connection migrate" to restore network connectivity Is this correct?Many moons ago, before this was even recognizable in NM (IIRC), I managed to hack together a bridge for a qemu VM. It works, the guest seems to have no problem getting its IP address from my DHCP server. After reading that article:
$ nmcli -f TYPE,FILENAME,NAME connTYPE FILENAME NAME
bridge /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-vnet0 Bridge vnet0 bridge /run/NetworkManager/system-connections/virbr0.nmconnection virbr0 ethernet /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 System eth0 ethernet /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 System eth1So, what are the chances that my VM's network connectivity survives migration to F36?
It would be useful to have nmcli connection migrate functional in F35, to give me some kind of an advance warning…
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