Bug#855834: linuxptp: default startup argument "-i eth0" should be removed

[Norbert Lange]

Package: linuxptp
Version: 1.8-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

a default installation of debian stretch will not use eth0 as
ethernet device name anymore, also see [1].

using this as commandline argument when starting this service is troublesome,
as it can`t be undone. The documention claims you can use an empty port section,
to override the but I am not sure how this should be done, as that will just
result in an error.

I had to edit the systemd unit file to get the service starting.

I would recommend removing the argument, and add a section for the device in the
configuration file. can be a placeholder like [eth0], I would not know
of a good default name that would fit most systems.

Kind regards,
Norbert Lange


[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages linuxptp depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.47
ii  libc6                2.24-9

linuxptp recommends no packages.

linuxptp suggests no packages.

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