On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:00 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:51 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Is there anything preventing PK from connecting to the network over > > non-NM-controlled network interfaces? > > > > (I am not using PackageKit facilities, just surprised at the dependencies...) > > It depends on NetworkManager-glib, not NetworkManager. And it does so > to check the status of the network connection before checking for > updates. I believe that if NetworkManager doesn't respond (because > you're bringing up your network some other way), it will continue on as > though the connection is said to be up by NM. Right, that's the way it should work. If talking to NM fails, the app should either (a) assume a connection, or (b) could be more intelligent by asking SIOCGIFCONF/netlink for interfaces, and if at least one interface is IFF_UP | IFF_RUNNING and has an IP address, then try. But only by using NM can PK really do things like "don't update while on 3G" and such which would be quite a bit more difficult without NM. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
