On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 at 16:21:16 +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 22:44 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > > I believe NM does not have a fixed configuration format, but only a dbus > > API. > > It's perfectly fine to edit configuration files for NM manually, see > man:nm-settings-keyfile(5).
... and debian-installer already knows how to write out these files, and has done so for more than a decade if I'm reading correctly. This is not a recent innovation, and anyone who has installed our default desktop environment in the last few years - especially if they used wifi during installation - has been relying on this code path. <https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/> is responsible for converting the network configuration that was used temporarily in the d-i environment into a NM configuration file if NM is installed, or an ifupdown configuration otherwise. Writing the equivalents into /etc/systemd/network for systemd-networkd would presumably not be rocket science, it's a simple .ini-like syntax similar to the one NM uses. smcv
