upgrade to rawhide report

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:27:16AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Incidentally, it shouldn't be all that hard to get the http proxy from
> DHCP into userspace.  dhclient seems to write out the configuration
> into /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-ethX.leases.  At worst you could have a
> little post-DHCP script that does "grep http-proxy", and then something
> like: 
> dbus-send --system --signal com.redhat.Network.DHCP.HttpProxy string:$(proxy)

The dhcp client already runs scripts on various events like network down and
address change. Right now we unfortunately don't do much with that functionality.

> Then NetworkManager could listen for this signal and set the GConf key.
> Then all applications which use GConf would dynamically pick up the
> change.

Yes