[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#609072: Bug#609072: Trials with Squeeze RC2: It does look like a Network Manager Package Issue

[Michael Biebl]

On 29.01.2011 22:02, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote:
> 
> I have studied happier scripts.  I can see no discrimination on the basis of
> interface name.  This suggests that it was not the original author's 
> intent to
> exclude wireless interfaces.  So I guess the script just does not work 
> properly.

No, the script works as expected. It comments out entries which only use dhcp
and have no further options.


> 
> The script makes a number of simplifying assumptions about the contents of
> /etc/network/interfaces and clearly cannot cope with stanzas [as per
> interfaces(5)] as complex as the wlan0 stanza.
> 
> It seems to want to disable only interfaces with an auto or allow- 
> stanza but
> has to act on the corresponding iface stanza.
> 
> An easier script to write is one that changes the iface name (e.g. wlan0 
> to no_wlan0).
> This has the advantage of not leaving the file syntactically incorrect.  

That is not true. The file that is left by NM is not syntactically incorrect.

> I can provide such
> a script if wanted.

Thanks for the offer, but no. First try to understand why the script behaves the
way it does and why you can't simply comment out everything.

> 
> It might be more sensible to simply back up and replace 
> /etc/network/interfaces with a
> copy that declares just the loopback interface

The loopback configuration in /e/n/i is actually completely unnecessary if you
use network-manager, as NM will bring up lo in any case.

 on the grounds that
> anyone requiring
> network interfaces that are not managed by the Network Manager will be 
> visiting the
> file anyway.

This would throw away any local modifications, so this is definitely a no-go.


Cheers,

Michael

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