[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] network-manager rant

Anssi Kolehmainen anssi at aketzu.net
Wed Jan 12 20:03:21 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:45:04PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 12.01.2011 20:39, Anssi Kolehmainen wrote:
> > D'oh... your parser looks for "bridge_ports" whereas I use "bridge-ports"...
> > No wonder it doesn't work...
> 
> Well, the bridge-utils-interfaces man page clearly says that this option is
> called bridge_ports. Go figure.

man interfaces says that definitions are exported to environment with hyphens
converted to underscores. So both versions work from ifupdown point of view.
Feels like interfaces file "prefers" hyphens (as with pre-up) but then
bridge-utils decided to document underscores.

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Anssi Kolehmainen
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