[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606268: Bug#606268: now ignores interfaces configured by d-i

[Michael Biebl]

On 07.12.2010 23:44, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Could you please clarify what exactly happened? Was this only temporary
> immediately after the upgrade? Is the problem reproducible after a upgrade?

Reproducible after a reboot, I meant.

>> One approach would be for for /usr/lib/NetworkManager/ifblacklist_migrate.sh
>> to convert stanzas containing any of these lines which d-i can include:
>>
>> 	wireless-mode managed
>> 	wireless-essid *
>> 	wireless-key1 *
>> 	hostname *
> 
> Are you suggesting to create a keyfile connection based on the configuration
> from /etc/network/interfaces?
> 
> Currently we don't do any conversion at all. We simply comment out any dhcp
> iface configuration without any additional option.

Doing a fully automated conversion would probably not be that easy and I'm not
convinced it would be a good idea anyways.

And we can't simply comment out entries like the above without risking to lose
network connection.

> If you install a new system using d-i and a /e/n/i configuration like your's is
> created, the interface will be managed by ifupdown and not network-manager.
> 
> Or are you suggesting that NM still tries to take over the interface even if is
> configured in /e/n/i?

Let me be more clear here: I fail to see the problem. Where do you think is
network-manager not behaving as expected?

Isn't this more a d-i problem, that it shouldn't write any /e/n/i configuration
at all if network-manager is being installed?

Trying to fix up such setups later in network-manager is brittle and we only do
it in the most common and simplest case.

Michael
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