Packaging changes on NetworkManager? Whither NetworkManager-glib...

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 10:04 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Did something recently change with the packaging of NetworkManager?
> 
> I’m not finding NetworkManager-glib, just NetworkManager-glib-devel:

Outdated mirrors perhaps?  It's clearly in the repos:

http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux//updates/20/x86_64/NetworkManager-glib-0.9.9.0-32.git20131003.fc20.x86_64.rpm

Does "yum clean all; yum upgrade" make things better?

Dan

> [root at builder philipp]# yum update 
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
> adobe-linux-x86_64                                       |  951 B     00:00     
> rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 3.3 kB     00:00     
> updates/20/x86_64/metalink                               | 9.7 kB     00:00     
> updates                                                  | 4.6 kB     00:00     
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package libnm-gtk.x86_64 0:0.9.9.0-7.git20131028.fc20 will be updated
> ---> Package libnm-gtk.x86_64 0:0.9.9.0-8.git20140123.fc20 will be an update
> ---> Package nm-connection-editor.x86_64 0:0.9.9.0-7.git20131028.fc20 will be updated
> ---> Package nm-connection-editor.x86_64 0:0.9.9.0-8.git20140123.fc20 will be an update
> --> Processing Dependency: NetworkManager-glib >= 1:0.9.9.0-26 for package: nm-connection-editor-0.9.9.0-8.git20140123.fc20.x86_64
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: nm-connection-editor-0.9.9.0-8.git20140123.fc20.x86_64 (updates)
>            Requires: NetworkManager-glib >= 1:0.9.9.0-26
>            Installed: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.9.9.0-20.git20131003.fc20.x86_64 (@fedora)
>                NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.9.9.0-20.git20131003.fc20
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> [root at builder philipp]# repoquery NetworkManager\*
> NetworkManager-config-server-1:0.9.9.0-31.git20131003.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-devel-1:0.9.9.0-31.git20131003.fc20.i686
> NetworkManager-devel-1:0.9.9.0-31.git20131003.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-glib-devel-1:0.9.9.0-31.git20131003.fc20.i686
> NetworkManager-glib-devel-1:0.9.9.0-31.git20131003.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-iodine-0:0.0.4-2.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-iodine-gnome-0:0.0.4-2.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-l2tp-0:0.9.8.6-1.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-openconnect-0:0.9.8.0-2.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-openswan-0:0.9.8.0-1.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-openvpn-1:0.9.9.0-0.1.git20140128.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome-1:0.9.9.0-0.1.git20140128.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-pptp-1:0.9.8.2-3.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-pptp-gnome-1:0.9.8.2-3.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-ssh-0:0.9.2-0.2.20140209git46247c2.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-ssh-gnome-0:0.9.2-0.2.20140209git46247c2.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-vpnc-1:0.9.8.2-2.fc20.x86_64
> NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-1:0.9.8.2-2.fc20.x86_64
> [root at builder philipp]# 
> 
> 
> For what it’s worth, I don’t even use NetworkManager as my desktop machine has no Wifi, no VPN tunnels, etc.  So I just use the ‘network’ service instead.  It would be nice if control-center didn’t have a dependency on NetworkManager, and that it was optional instead.
> 
> -Philip
>