On 09/02/18 05:53 +1000, Kel Modderman said ... > ifplugd.init might be problematic in its proposed form. The initscript > should only do with "allow-ifplugd" interfaces what it does for > HOTPLUG_INTERFACES. The maintainer scripts would have to in order to > manage changes to the debconf questions though ... and integrating this > feature starts to become messy.
I did not understand this bit, can you please explain?
> > +# Invent an "allow-ifplugd" interfaces class
> > +ALLOW_INTERFACES="$(sed -n -e "s/^allow-${DAEMON_NAME}[[:space:]]\+//p" \
> > + /etc/network/interfaces 2>/dev/null || true)"
> > +
> > +# Append allow-ifplugd interfaces to statically listed interface list
> > +INTERFACES="$INTERFACES $ALLOW_INTERFACES"
>
> ^^ they should be treated as hotplug interfaces, not statically managed ones.
Again, but why is that so?
Apologies in case I am missing something obvious here.
Giridhar
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