Bug#673043: new ifupdown does not understand comments in interfaces, breaking existing setups

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Tokarev
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7~rc3 Severity: serious The new ifupdown package does not recognize comments in middle of lines in /etc/network/interfaces anymore. For example, I have the following on one of our hosts: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.177.7 netmask 255.255.255.192 # /26,

Bug#673043: new ifupdown does not understand comments in interfaces, breaking existing setups

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.05.2012 21:20, Michael Tokarev wrote: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.177.7 netmask 255.255.255.192 # /26, 0..63 Interesting. The manpage actually says that in-line coments are NOT supported, but I've never actually noticed this till today. It has always worked, and I guess

Bug#673043: new ifupdown does not understand comments in interfaces, breaking existing setups

2012-05-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 15 May 2012 21:26:17 +0400 Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: Interesting. The manpage actually says that in-line coments are NOT supported, but I've never actually noticed this till today. It has always worked, and I guess it was more by incident not by design. But I'd

Bug#673043: new ifupdown does not understand comments in interfaces, breaking existing setups

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.05.2012 21:32, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, On Tue, 15 May 2012 21:26:17 +0400 Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: Interesting. The manpage actually says that in-line coments are NOT supported, but I've never actually noticed this till today. It has always worked, and I guess