Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7.53.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Adding hwaddr config line into /etc/network/interfaces config file
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
After installation of macchanger everything worked flawlessly, before
installation of macchanger mac address just did not change and I did not notice
any error message (searched log files, maybe I overlooked it)
* Solution?
Problem could be probably resolved by workaround using ip link set hwaddr
functionality instead of macchanger or marking macchanger as at least optional
functionality of ifupdown package and mentioning in manpage of "interfaces"
(/etc/network/interfaces) that hwaddr funcionality needs macchanger as
dependency. (It is misleading because same effect can be done with ip link
which is installed by default, so I did not expect that macchanger is crucial
to hwaddr config option to work) Macchanger is not part of minimal image and is
not dependency of ifupdown, so it can be easily missing in system. Iproute2 is
part of minimal image and also dependency of ifupdown.
-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)
Release: 8.0
Codename: jessie
Architecture: armv7l
Kernel: Linux 4.9.24-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii iproute2 3.16.0-2
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u9
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+rpi1+nmu1
Versions of packages ifupdown recommends:
ii dhcpcd5 [dhcp-client] 6.7.1-1+rpi5
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.3.1-6+deb8u2
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii net-tools 1.60-26
pn ppp <none>
pn rdnssd <none>
-- no debconf information
