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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:24:51
Message-Id: 200707211722.10417.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans by Roy Marples
1 On Saturday 21 July 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 21:28 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 22:22 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
4 > > > Is there a common bug to report snags to? I've hit one:
5 > > > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 used to be a symlink to net.lo. After
6 > > > installing, it was gone (I figure it went with baselayout-1).
7 > > > Luckily, I have direct console access, otherwise the machine
8 > > > would have been gone after the reboot. Definitely something to
9 > > > yell about during merging.
10 > >
11 > > We don't ship with net.eth0 because there is no guarantee an interface
12 > > called eth0 exists. net.lo (net.lo0 in *BSDs) always exists so we just
13 > > ship that.
14 >
15 > One very good idea would be to get udev to create any net links that do
16 > not exist to net.lo
17 >
18 > Then we truly have plug and play :)
19
20 indeed, that'd be sleeky and sexy ... go file a bug ;)
21 -mike

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