Re: Release Notes for buster: 70-persistent-net-rules still supported?

2019-07-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 03 iul 19, 18:22:30, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Usually ethernet interfaces are name eth* and wifi interfaces are named >> wlan*, so yeah, if you have a single ethernet interface which is named >> eth0 and a single wifi interface that is named wlan0, then you are safe

Re: Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

2019-06-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Back from my walk in the lovely warm pouring rain... Justin B Rye wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 29.06.19 um 15:09 schrieb Justin B Rye: >>> [...] A file in >>> + /lib/modprobe.d can be overridden by one with >>> the >>> + s

Re: Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

2019-06-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 29.06.19 um 15:09 schrieb Justin B Rye: >> + configure a machine as a router, may encounter problems upgrading to >> buster. >> + New versions of udev install a > > That modprobe config file is shipped by the systemd packag

Re: Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

2019-06-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: > Okay, back to the drawing board: I attach a slightly rephrased version with markup. > [...] > > It sounds as if we should also be adding something to the effect that > > With systemd it may be simpler to configure virtual network devices > using

Re: Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

2019-06-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Baptiste BEAUPLAT wrote: >> Do we have any idea what their use case would be? Apparently a >> different one from Baptiste's, if it's true that he needed to >> explicitly configure "numdummies=1"... > > In my case, I didn't need to specify the "numdummies=1" as it is the > default (when systemd

Re: Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

2019-06-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Biebl wrote: > Afaiu, the kernel default is to create one dummy device by default when > the module is loaded. > I assume there might be cases where users rely on that default behaviour > without having explicitly configured anything. Do we have any idea what their use case would be?

Re: Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

2019-06-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: > Okay, so here's a first rough idea of what the release-notes might > say. Properly formatted patch attached. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package diff --git a/en/issu

Re: Bug#931130: Document that local configuration for dummy and bonding modules are getting overwritten by systemd

2019-06-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 26.06.19 um 21:39 schrieb andreimpope...@gmail.com: >> On Mi, 26 iun 19, 20:23:59, Baptiste BEAUPLAT wrote: >>> The only way to force modprobe to use local configuration is to rename >>> the /etc/modprobe.d/dummy.conf file to /etc/modprobe.d/systemd.conf. >> >> Is this