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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 23.07.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Julian Wollrath:
> 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.

As a related remark, we already have the same problem if users rename
their interfaces via udev rules and they don't use
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules but create a custom rules file
for that.



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