Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch
The device-reorder section in upgrading.dbk refers to some obsolete file paths (e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules). The paths listed were valid in etch, but have changed for lenny. Since the documented functionality existed in etch, it may be reasonable to remove it completely. Otherwise, here's a patch to update them. noah -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Index: en/upgrading.dbk =================================================================== --- en/upgrading.dbk (revision 5781) +++ en/upgrading.dbk (working copy) @@ -1265,9 +1265,9 @@ For network devices, you can avoid this reordering by using <systemitem role="package">udev</systemitem> rules, more specifically, through the definitions at -<filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules</filename><footnote><para> +<filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</filename><footnote><para> The rules there are automatically generated by the script -<filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/z45_persistent-net-generator.rules</filename> to +<filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules</filename> to have persistent names for network interfaces. Delete this symlink to disable persistent device naming for <acronym>NIC</acronym>s by <systemitem role="package">udev</systemitem>. </para> </footnote>. Alternatively you can
