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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:12:04
Message-Id: 1185052160.2490.52.camel@uberpc.marples.name
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans by Roy Marples
1 On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 21:28 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 22:22 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
3 > > Is there a common bug to report snags to? I've hit one:
4 > > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 used to be a symlink to net.lo. After
5 > > installing, it was gone (I figure it went with baselayout-1).
6 > > Luckily, I have direct console access, otherwise the machine
7 > > would have been gone after the reboot. Definitely something to
8 > > yell about during merging.
9 >
10 > We don't ship with net.eth0 because there is no guarantee an interface
11 > called eth0 exists. net.lo (net.lo0 in *BSDs) always exists so we just
12 > ship that.
13
14 One very good idea would be to get udev to create any net links that do
15 not exist to net.lo
16
17 Then we truly have plug and play :)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>