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On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:16:56AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote:

> root@lotus:/etc/network/if-pre-up.d# ifup -a
> IFACE==--all
> run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/000debug exited with return code 1
> ifup: pre-up script failed
> 
> Arguably, the hooks should be called once for each interface that is 
> brought up/down, with $IFACE set accordingly, not just once for all 
> of them.

It is called for all of them with $IFACE set accordingly, but in
addition, for each invocation of ifup -a, the scripts are run with
IFACE=--all.

This is documented behaviour, and some users' setups might depend on it.
I'll have to check whether this is still used by scripts provided by
other Debian packages, and if not then perhaps we can phase this out.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org>

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