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

[Michael Biebl]

On 08.12.2010 00:45, Joey Hess wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Unfortunatly I don't see much of a choice, unless you want to just
> change the default to managed=true. There are probably a great many
> systems out there that have already been installed and have this
> problem.

I honestly doubt that.
First, installing over wireless is certainly not the norm, especially as WEP is
deader than dead and open wireless networks are not that common either.

And second, allow-hotplug not working on your system is afaics due to a buggy
driver.

All in all this is a rather rare combination I'd say, altough I certainly admit
it is an issue for you.

Switching to managed=true has a much wider impact which I don't want to risk at
this stage of the release.

And simply commenting out wireless configurations generated by d-i is risky too:
On systems where allow-hotplug works and ifupdown is used to configure the
interface, commenting it out will kill the network configuration.

A compromise could be, to only comment out a wireless configuration found in
/e/n/i, if we find a  corresponding (I'd use essid is the same as criteria)
network-manager configuration.

Michael

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