Bug#793374: systemd: Does not honour /etc/systemd/network/*.link

[Julian Wollrath]

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Package: systemd
Version: 222-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I change my network device names via an .link definition in
/etc/systemd/network/01-ethernet.link with the following content:
    [Match]
    MACAddress=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
    OriginalName=eth*
    Driver=e1000e

    [Link]
    Name=eth0

The update to systemd 222-2 broke that. The device gets renamed to
enp0s25, disregarding the .link file. A look at the logs shows, that
this happens, before the root filesystem is mounted, so when the system
is still controlled by the initramfs. The manpage of systemd.link says,
that everything in /etc/systemd/network/*.link takes precedence over
/lib/systemd/network and others. Hence, the content
of /etc/system/network should also be contained in the initramfs, so
that this is true.

Thank you.

With best regards,
Julian Wollrath

- -- Package-specific info:

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.3 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libapparmor1    2.9.2-3
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4.2-1
ii  libblkid1       2.26.2-6
ii  libc6           2.19-19
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-9
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-9
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.3-2
ii  libkmod2        21-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.26.2-6
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libseccomp2     2.2.1-2
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0     222-2
ii  mount           2.26.2-6
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59.2
ii  udev            222-2
ii  util-linux      2.26.2-6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.20-1
ii  libpam-systemd  222-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf changed [not included]

- -- no debconf information

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