On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:19:42AM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote: > Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote: > >> Package: zeroconf > >> Version: 0.6-1 > >> Severity: wishlist > >> > >> > >> It would be very nice if one could add a DISABLE_ZEROCONF=yes switch > >> or something similar to /etc/default/zeroconf. > > > > Why would you disable it completely? Why not just blacklist the > > particular interface you are having problems with? > > There are multiple valid reasons for disabling something completely: > > 1. I want to keep it installed in case I may need it some time, but > do not need and thus do not want it active in everyday use. > That is my typical laptop use case. > > 2. If a problem occurs during the "ifup -a" on boot, there is no > running system in which one could easily check which of the > interfaces is actually having the problem. > > Completely disable zeroconf it from a rescue system, boot up, and > then check each interface from the running system is much easier > than finding out what all the possible interfaces could be called > like. > > If you do a reasonable amount of tunneling, it is not easy to keep > track of all that tun* and tap* device numbers which you have to > explictly disable.
Ahh - okay; zeroconf shouldmore extensively check the link type and only bother for link/ether device which will solve this problem in the general case. But I'll add in the disable feature in the next upload. [...] > Hmm... if I have to manually clean something up, then I definitely > miss the place where README.Debian or the message on package > installation says "if you've just upgraded from 0.3, you have to clean > up files manually". :) Yeah, I guess I could have made the transition somewhat cleaner; I'll think about it but basically an upgrade just leaves a /etc/network/if-up.d/zeroconf-up script lying around which you can safely remove. Thanks for your bugreport. Regards, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
