Bug#330830: netbase: what to do with /etc/network/options

2005-10-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:52:07PM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Well, what about generating some hints about what to write to sysctl.conf (probably based on network/options) then? Finally, it doesn't matter if you put them in debconf and make them dynamic or static in README.Debian.

Bug#330830: netbase: what to do with /etc/network/options

2005-10-02 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:29:35AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Especially in the case of spoofprotect, since sysctl doesn't seem to expand wildcards in /etc/sysctl.conf and thus the naive approach of writing net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf doesn't work. Ah, thanks for that, I

Bug#330830: netbase: what to do with /etc/network/options

2005-09-30 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:49:52AM +0300, Jukka Suomela wrote: So, by following the documentation, I should now write something to /etc/sysctl.conf. Fine, I could do that, but this sounds like a bit strange upgrade path for a regular user. After all, I don't think I since you (not you Jukka,

Bug#330830: netbase: what to do with /etc/network/options

2005-09-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 30, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since you (not you Jukka, but the package maintainers :)) are deprecating /etc/network/options, it would be nice to provide some automatic transition to procps:/etc/sysctl.conf. Can't be done, /etc/sysctl.conf is a conffile. Since

Bug#330830: netbase: what to do with /etc/network/options

2005-09-30 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:37:30PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 30, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: transition to procps:/etc/sysctl.conf. Can't be done, /etc/sysctl.conf is a conffile. Hm, I did expect something like this, yes :/ probably surround the transition by

Bug#330830: netbase: what to do with /etc/network/options

2005-09-29 Thread Jukka Suomela
Package: netbase Version: 4.22 Severity: minor Hi, I noticed that /etc/network/options is now deprecated. As the init scripts warn on this issue, I tried to RTFM and see what I should do to fix this issue. The only piece of documentation I could find was this: