on Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:04:31AM +0100, Frank F?rst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just did my daily apt-get upgrade, and finally the pcmcia-packages > also where upgraded, which have always been kept back since I > dist-upgraded from potato to woody in December. The new version is > 3.1.31. > > What is at least an annoying wishlist bug, if not more, is that the > network settings from the old /etc/pcmcia/network.opts have not been > transfered to the new file, and I was also not asked by debconf to put > in new values.
It's been considered release critical by Joey Hess, though it may now be
resolved.
> /etc/pcmcia/network.opts contains all the things like IP-adress,
> gateway and nameservers. Of course this file is not from the *.deb, it
> has been created by a script when I first installed the network stuff
> in potato. Then, this script must have asked me for the information
> and put it into the file.
>
> Now, upon upgrade, debconf informed me that the file from the new
> package differs from the existing file "created by you or a script",
> as usual. What I think it should have done is either parse the old
> file and put the data in the new one (at a first glance, the file
> format seemed very different, however upon closer inspection it was
> only the order and the comments that have changed, not the syntax), or
> rather call again the script that originally created that file.
>
> As it is now, one has to manually edit the file to get back network
> access. And if the problem persists upon a new installation, some
> configuration script is missing that existed in potato.
>
> Should I report this as a bug? Can one comment wether this is really a
> problem in pcmcia-cs or elsewhere?
Does:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133968&repeatmerged=yes
...seem to relate?
If not, there are a few other recently filed bugs to pcmcia-cs.
Peace.
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