Bug 590181

Summary:	yast requests smpppd during switching from NM to ifup method
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Stefan Assmann <s.assmann>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jsrain, schubi
Version:	Milestone 3
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Stefan Assmann 2010-03-22 13:26:01 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.8 Firefox/3.6

The standard installation doesn't sport smpppd but ifup-network-method requires
it. So when you try switching from NetworkManager to ifup in yast it will ask
you to install smpppd otherwise there might be problems. Switching to ifup
method might be a good idea if NetworkManager doesn't behave as expected.
The problem is that when you have problems with NM chances are high you're
internet connection might not be working, so making the transition from NM to
ifup as easy as possible would be great.

coolo doesn't want to add the smpppd to the standard installation pattern. Any other way of fixing this ?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. basic installation w/o extra package selection
2. switch from NM to ifup
3. yast will complain about missing smpppd

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2010-04-13 08:49:29 UTC

You can't skip smpppd installation, but you can ignore the errors you get when zypp fails to retrieve the package. I think it's a plain yast bug that it requires smpppd for simple eth0 dhcpd. I won't install that package by default.

Comment 5 Michal Zugec 2010-04-13 09:48:22 UTC

Duplicate of existing bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 580039 ***