Bug#308894: add debconf questions for naming network interfaces

2005-05-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Not sure whether this would be better reassigned to netcfg or ddetect. Joey? Quoting Matt Taggart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist It would be really cool if during an install you could be prompted to name the various network interfaces for use with nameif.

Bug#308894: add debconf questions for naming network interfaces

2005-05-13 Thread Matt Taggart
Christian Perrier writes... Should be something like: _Description: Do you want to changer network interface names? It appears that the system has more than one network interface. You can change their default names to more meaningful names. (English to be enhanced here?) changer

Bug#308894: add debconf questions for naming network interfaces

2005-05-13 Thread Christian Perrier
_Description: Do you want to changer network interface names? It appears that the system has more than one network interface. You can change their default names to more meaningful names. (English to be enhanced here?) changer should be something else, maybe modify' yuck. Some

Bug#308894: add debconf questions for naming network interfaces

2005-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: Not sure whether this would be better reassigned to netcfg or ddetect. Joey? ddetect. We need to use nameif for interfaces anyway because the kernel enforces no guaranteed names on interfaces except module load order, which is too fragile to rely on and the cause of

Bug#308894: add debconf questions for naming network interfaces

2005-05-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Not sure about adding a question about interface names; netcfg already uses link information to decide which one of multiple interfaces to use and I'm not convinced renamingthe interfaces warrants another question (in high priority anyway). In high priority, sure That may be discussed

Bug#308894: add debconf questions for naming network interfaces

2005-05-12 Thread Matt Taggart
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist It would be really cool if during an install you could be prompted to name the various network interfaces for use with nameif. Maybe this question would only occur if you had more than one interface or were in expert mode. You appear to have more than