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Previously, we installed a file

  /usr/lib/systemd/system//network-online.target.wants/NetworkManager-wait-online.service

so that network-online.target Wants=NetworkManager-wait-online.service


that has the serious downside that it is impossible to actually disable the service. The only way to prevent if from running was to mask it.


Instead, network-online.target should be enabled on new installatin via presets.

during package upgrade, the spec file contains a %pre section which fixes the enabled status.


Upstream commits are:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=d61eaf2545c819cab17c29c4c13a3a3bd94b38a6
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=513d0c2286c8cfe3618cf767da1511bcb939640a

See also Fedora bug 1455704.


All that is left to do, is to ensure that NetworkManager-wait-online.service is enabled via presets.

Closing as duplicate, as this is fixed by "redhat-release" package.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1540243 ***