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

[Michael Biebl]

On 08.12.2010 00:19, Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Upgrading from which version?
> 
> 0.8.1-4
> 
>> I also don't understand why you say that the network is taken down.
> 
> Because it was taken down, when the postinst stopped network-manager,
> and did not come back up when the postinst started network-manager
> (because network-manager had changed to not manage it).

This is a temporary issue. Not sure yet what to do about this.

>> Are you suggesting to create a keyfile connection based on the configuration
>> from /etc/network/interfaces?
> 
> I'm suggesting that network-manager needs to deal with standard
> interfaces files as generated by d-i, and that its current code to do
> that is buggy, and that this is a release critical bug.

The network being taken down on upgrades from prvious 0.8.x versions under
certain circumstances is an issue.
Afaics this won't affect fresh installs though or upgrades from lenny.

Other than that I don't see the current code as being buggy.

Care to elaborate?

Michael

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