[arch-dev-public] Fwd: NetworkManager starts dhclient with a bad path to lease file

[Jan Steffens]

Hey,

should we change dhcp and dhclient to use /var/lib instead of
/var/state? AFAICT it's the only package using the /var/state
directory. Context below.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann at gmx.de>
Date: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: NetworkManager starts dhclient with a bad path to lease file
To: Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>


Hi,

some time ago this was reported as bug and I changed dhclient to
use /var/state/ directory. Personally I don't care where the file is
located. Feel free to change it in the dhclient package. At the moment I
have no time because I moved to a new appartment.

Cheers,
Daniel

On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 17:35 +0100, Jan Steffens wrote:
> I just got this email. I wonder why dhcp/dhclient is using /var/state
> instead of /var/lib. It's the only package on my system to do so.
>
> Should this be fixed in dhcp or NM?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stephen Drodge <stephen.drodge at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:05 AM
> Subject: NetworkManager starts dhclient with a bad path to lease file
> To: "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)" <jan.steffens at gmail.com>, Jan de
> Groot <jgc at archlinxu.org>
>
>
> When NetworkManager starts dhclient it passes a command line argument
> "-lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient*-*.lease" which tells dhclient to
> place a lease file in /var/lib/dhclient. This directory does not exist
> on my system (or indeed in the dhclient package). Lease files should
> be placed instead in /var/state/dhclient. I have attached a trivial
> patch to fix this.
>
> This is the first time I've submitted a patch, so please let me know
> if I've gone about this the wrong way or if you want me to reformat
> anything. I can also submit a patch to the abs package if you desire.
>
> I can also send this patch upstream if you think that it's appropriate
> (I have found old bug reports of the same nature in launchpad so Arch
> may not be the only distribution that suffers from this)
>
> Stephen Drodge