Thanks for the report. agreed. I will submit a fix with appropriate dependencies.
ifupdown2 is running today on a distribution with latest networking tools on linux mainly iproute2. You may see warnings related to ip and other commands if not available. will fix it. On 1/12/16, 11:38 AM, Alex Henry wrote: > Package: ifupdown2 > Version: 1.0~git20151029-1 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > Recently systemd has been tagged as "conflicts" with ifupdown > so a system update broke my network configuration. I have been > able to restore the configuration by using ifupdown2 but I have > seen a few error messages that probably indicate that there are > missing dependencies on this package. > > Despite the errors I have been able to use ifupdown2 to get > eth0 up and then using the "pump" package I could configure > DHCP to get my Internet connection working again. > > When trying to configure a static IP address: > > > ifup eth0 > warning: /etc/network/interfaces: line4: cannot find source file > /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > warning: failed to execute cmd 'ip -force -batch -' ([Errno 2] No such file > or directory) > > When trying to use DHCP: > > > ifup eth0 > warning: /etc/network/interfaces: line4: cannot find source file > /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > warning: failed to execute cmd '/sbin/dhclient -pf /run/dhclient.eth0.pid > -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0' ([Errno 2] No such file or > directory) > > Please ignore the "line 4" warnings since I don't think they > are relevant. > > I believe that whatever packages provide "ip" and "dhclient" > should be listed in "depends" or "recommends" on ifupdown2. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages ifupdown2 depends on: > ii init-system-helpers 1.24 > ii python-argcomplete 0.8.1-1 > ii python-ipaddr 2.1.11-2 > pn python:any <none> > > ifupdown2 recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages ifupdown2 suggests: > pn python-gvgen <none> > pn python-mako <none> > > -- no debconf information
