Package: apticron Version: 1.1.57 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
At the moment apticron seems to have an IPADDRESSNUM= setting which controls how many IP addresses are listed, but this appears to be IP addresses *per interface*. I have hosts with 70+ network interfaces, and as a result their apticron headers have one IPv4 and one IPv6 address per interface, which makes for incredibly verbose header text that takes up the entire first page of any report. It would be good to limit IP address discovery to listed interfaces, so that I can choose just the interface I care about. For example: IPINTERFACES="bond0 eth7" If not set then the default behaviour of getting addresses from every interface would prevail. As a workaround it is possible to use IPADDRESSES="…" to hard-code the correct IP addresses for each host, which is not too much trouble with config management to generate a unique config file per host. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apticron depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.8.1 ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii dpkg 1.17.25 ii ucf 3.0030 Versions of packages apticron recommends: ii apt-listchanges 2.85.13+nmu1 ii iproute2 3.16.0-2 apticron suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
