[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] network-manager rant

[Michael Biebl]

On 12.01.2011 21:03, Anssi Kolehmainen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:45:04PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 12.01.2011 20:39, Anssi Kolehmainen wrote:
>>> D'oh... your parser looks for "bridge_ports" whereas I use "bridge-ports"...
>>> No wonder it doesn't work...
>>
>> Well, the bridge-utils-interfaces man page clearly says that this option is
>> called bridge_ports. Go figure.
> 
> man interfaces says that definitions are exported to environment with hyphens
> converted to underscores. So both versions work from ifupdown point of view.
> Feels like interfaces file "prefers" hyphens (as with pre-up) but then
> bridge-utils decided to document underscores.

Please file a bug so this issue is not forgotten.
I'll update the parser then to accept both variants.

Michael
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