Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: to do. 2. nameif has issues when using /etc/mactab. I can't remember the exact problems as I can't access that machine right now, but I couldn't get nameif to work that way. you should not try to assign ethX because of the not-temp-rename problem.

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:38:31PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: to do. 2. nameif has issues when using /etc/mactab. I can't remember the exact problems as I can't access that machine right now, but I couldn't get nameif to work that way. you

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 19, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some reason we should be unable to provide a smooth upgrade path for users of sarge? Having your network devices scramble themselves on reboot is a Big Deal, whether or not it's in the release notes. This often happens anyway when

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:40:53AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: We could enhance the ifup interfaces file format to use MACs as interface identifiers and have an additional labeling statement. (i know it can be done with other means right now but I think it sould be introduced as first class

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: use nameif. This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations renaming eth0. Well, you just cant use existing names (this could be fixed, however i am not sure if this is needed) It

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 19, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some reason we should be unable to provide a smooth upgrade path for users of sarge? Having your network devices scramble themselves on reboot is a Big Deal, whether or not it's in the release

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:13:01AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 19, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some reason we should be unable to provide a smooth upgrade path for users of sarge? Having your network devices scramble themselves on reboot is a Big Deal, whether

Re: udev event completion order (was: Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting))

2005-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An alternative appears to be to process events in series... or maybe delaying This was the precedent approach, and it's much slower (also, it cannot be implemented anymore with just udevd). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 17 December 2005 09.30, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 17, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is currently very likely that systems with two network interfaces will end up with both switched on the installed system after the reboot. This is of course a blocker. This

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I hope this will be solved soon! use nameif. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:34, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I hope this will be solved soon! use nameif. This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations renaming eth0. The correct solution seems to be to use udev rewriting rules

Re: udev event completion order (was: Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting))

2005-12-18 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:52:42AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 18, Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An alternative appears to be to process events in series... or maybe delaying This was the precedent approach, and it's much slower (also, it cannot be implemented anymore with

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:14:19PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:34, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I hope this will be solved soon! use nameif. This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations renaming

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: use nameif. This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations renaming eth0. Well, you just cant use existing names (this could be fixed, however i am not sure if this is needed) I am currently not sure which limitation that is

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 17, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is currently very likely that systems with two network interfaces will end up with both switched on the installed system after the reboot. This is of course a blocker. The discussion showed that sticking with discover while udev is

udev event completion order (was: Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting))

2005-12-17 Thread Darren Salt
[CC'ing hotplug-devel] I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written... On Dec 17, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is currently very likely that systems with two network interfaces will end up with both switched on the installed system after the reboot. This is of

Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-16 Thread Christian Perrier
(reply-to: debian-boot) The eigth Debian Installer team meeting was held from 21:00UTC to 22:24UTC on Wednesday December 14th 2005. There were about 80 people connected to the channel during the meeting and 17 of them spoke during the meeting at least once. The full log of the meeting is