Looking at the gentoo response in the ticket, the decision to maintain the interface truncation looks pretty final. Regardless of this, supporting iproute2 should be a priority, since I've heard of minimal arch installs that don't include net-tools at all and we can expect the trend towards iproute2 to continue.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Matthew Marlowe <ma...@gentoo.org> wrote: > All, > > I put in a request to have the gentoo bug reopened and see if we can > apply the same patch that the other distributions used. > > Thanks, > Matt > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Alex L. Demidov > <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:50:25PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: > >> I think this gives a little weight to this ticket for Facter then: > >> > >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1346 > >> > >> Although - I don't see a 9 char limitation on Debian Wheezy. Not sure > >> where that patch came from though. I wonder how many other distros > >> suffer from this. > > > > It seems that they (and RHEL/Fedora) patched this long ago. > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405521 > > > >> > >> Of slightly related interest - I do see a 15 character limit when > >> using 'brctl addbr somelongnamefoo' to create a named interface - and > >> that seems to exist for both ifconfig and ip addr when reading the > >> interfaces. So I'm guessing 15 chars is the kernel limit or perhaps > >> brctl limit :-). > > > > Luckily all my interface names under 15 chars length. > > > >> > >> ken. > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Alex L. Demidov > >> <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:24:40PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: > >> >> Hi Alex, > >> >> > >> >> What happens when you run 'ip addr list' instead? > >> > > >> > It shows interface names properly and not truncated. > >> > > >> >> > >> >> ken. > >> >> > >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Alex L. Demidov > >> >> <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > I have Gentoo host where `ifconfig -a` prints long interface names > >> >> > truncated to 9 chars (there is closed bug report [1]). > >> >> > > >> >> > Unfortunately, `facter` uses `ifconfig -a` output to get list of > >> >> > interface names and because of truncation it generates `interfaces` > >> >> > fact with incorrect interface names. Also it fails to retrieve > >> >> > individual interface information with following message for > >> >> > each interface with name "myinterface": > >> >> > > >> >> > Device "myinterfa" does not exist. > >> >> > myinterfa: error fetching interface information: Device not found > >> >> > > >> >> > [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179920 > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Alex L. Demidov (ALD9-RIPE). > >> > http://alexeydemidov.com/ > >> > Freelance Consulting. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > Alex L. Demidov (ALD9-RIPE). > > http://alexeydemidov.com/ > > Freelance Consulting. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Adrien Thebo Puppet Labs Operations adr...@puppetlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
