[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606268: Bug#606268: Debdiff with new script to handle /etc/network/interfaces

[Michael Biebl]

On 29.11.2012 00:46, Maximiliano Curia wrote:

> I would like to hear opinions about this script from the maintainers or other
> interested parties.  In the case that I don't get any replies, I would do the
> NMU in a couple of days.

Just a quick comment from skimming over the patch: As you can see from
the discussion in [1], an auto or allow-* line without a corresponding
iface config is no longer considered valid syntax. Recent versions of
ifupdown are stricter about that.
At least that is my understanding from reading [1]. "man interfaces" is
not really definitive in that regard. Andrew, I hope you can clarify this.


That means, in addition to commenting out the actual iface config, you
also need to comment out the "auto eth0" or "allow-hotplug eth0" line.

What makes this a bit more complicated, is that you can use a syntax
like this:

auto eth0 eth1

iface eth0 inet manual
iface eth1 inet dhcp

In this case you can't simply comment out the auto line, since that
would disable eth0.

Would be great if you can update your patch accordingly.

Cheers,
Michael


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656584#111

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