On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop > >>> (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is it > >>> possible to set desktop profiles to still use ethX, and base > >>> profile to use new naming scheme? > >>> > >>> For wireless situation may be different, many of them are > >>> external, could wireless be managed differently? > >>> > >> > >> In short, no. At least, not unless the functionality that is > >> currently a configure-time thing is changed into a > >> build-time/install-time thing controlled via a use flag. > > > > Actually,this is how I set you up by dropping the file in > > /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules. > > > > Nothing changes on your system unless you remove this file and do > > not have 70-persistent-net.rules. > > > > William > > > > ..right, but default behaviour can't be changed automatically > depending on what profile you're on, as vivo requested, since profiles > don't control configuration (just use flags)
Right, and we have a policy against using use flags to control the installation of configuration files. vivo, what is your concern here exactly? William
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