On Feb 11, Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having debian-installer see devices one way and the next boot having > the devices in some other order (with the config files set up for the > d-i order) is not a releaseable state. If udev can't provide this basic > feature in time for release, then we should be looking at other options. Persistence of network interfaces names will be implemented in time for the freeze. 0.084-4 (to be uploaded as soon as -3 will be in testing) contains a patch from the Ubuntu package which will let me use a much simpler script to find the interface names (the last month I started rewriting the SuSE script, but stopped disgusted by what an ugly hack it is). Then I will start writing a new helper script, which hopefully will be ready in a few weeks.
> One of which would have d-i set up mappings from MAC addresses to > configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, similar to the examples in > ifupdown. This isn't something that the average end user should ever > have to set up, and certainly will confuse a lot of existing users. Being able to query ifupdown for the name of an interface would be very useful indeed, because it would be a natural interface and would make implementing the udev side almost trivial, but that code scares me and there is no way that I will look at it again, ever. -- ciao, Marco
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