Re: [PATCH] Update networkmanager+nm-applet

[Ludovic Courtès]

Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:

> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>  [PATCH 1/2] gnu: network-manager: Update to 1.4.2.
>>  [PATCH 2/2] gnu: network-manager-applet: Update to 1.4.2.
>>
>> Update to 1.4.2 for both, nm-applet is build without WWAN support
>> until we have glib updated to 2.50,
>> which should be done in core-updates if it isn't already being worked on.
>
> The patches look good, but I don't know how to test the service from
> within my Guix source tree.

You could come up with an OS config that uses network manager instead of
Wicd, and then test that with ‘guix system vm’.

It won’t tell you if NM would work “in reality”, but it would catch
basic issues.

Ludo’.