Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-04-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On 1 April 2013 02:56, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry. -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
130401 Markos Chandras wrote: On 1 April 2013 02:56, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry. So you broke the threading on the original email, you deleted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-04-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On 1 April 2013 16:32, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 130401 Markos Chandras wrote: On 1 April 2013 02:56, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/01/2013 01:06 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 1 April 2013 16:32, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 130401 Markos Chandras wrote: On 1 April 2013 02:56, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. Perhaps it needs to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-04-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On Apr 1, 2013 8:53 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/01/2013 01:06 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 1 April 2013 16:32, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 130401 Markos Chandras wrote: On 1 April 2013 02:56, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I have sent a msg to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:45:50PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote Those 70-* and 80-* are in udev pkg_postinst, this news item, everywhere... can all 3 be deleted if you haven't modified them yourself. So that leaves one... local.rules... dunno about that. I'm curious. One paragraph you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-31 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 31. März 2013, 03:17:52 schrieb Samuli Suominen: Nothing is stopping you from leaving out the symlink either and migrating to the new name despite using only 1 network card either, it's still more reliable than the kernel names Why should I? Kernel behaviour is traditionally way

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
130331 Samuli Suominen offered prompt + polite help re Udev 200 : Thanks. In fact, it's a bit more complex than I thought yesterday. After moving the '70 80' files into a subdirectory restarting, I get : root:501 ~ dhcpcd dhcpcd[830]: version 5.6.4 starting ... [nothing happens for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-30 Thread Philip Webb
130329 Samuli Suominen wrote: Attached new version again, more generic than before. I find this difficult to decipher. Who is it aimed at ? I've just updated to Udev 200 . Following the news item, I renamed /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules : my script to start my I/net connection

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 31/03/13 04:06, Philip Webb wrote: 130329 Samuli Suominen wrote: Attached new version again, more generic than before. I find this difficult to decipher. Who is it aimed at ? I've just updated to Udev 200 . Following the news item, I renamed /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules :

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 31/03/2013 03:17, Samuli Suominen wrote: it's still more reliable than the kernel names I still call that bullshit. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 29/03/13 12:24, Duncan wrote: Samuli Suominen posted on Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:09:27 +0200 as excerpted: This feature will also replace the functionality of sys-apps/biosdevname which you should uninstall. However, you can still keep using sys-apps/biosdevname if you want. I'd suggest...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29/03/2013 11:26, Samuli Suominen wrote: With the new predictable network interface naming scheme which upstream enabled by default you don't have to rename anymore because the names will be static and not randomly rename when you, for example, upgrade the kernel. This can be very

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 29/03/13 12:46, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 29/03/2013 11:26, Samuli Suominen wrote: With the new predictable network interface naming scheme which upstream enabled by default you don't have to rename anymore because the names will be static and not randomly rename when you, for example,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29/03/2013 11:50, Samuli Suominen wrote: Not false, but configurable, and linked from the news item -- nobody stopping you from eg. using MAC addresses instead of PCI slots for defining the names, just like one would have renamed them using MAC with 70-persistent-net.rules Which I usually

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 29/03/13 13:01, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 29/03/2013 11:50, Samuli Suominen wrote: Not false, but configurable, and linked from the news item -- nobody stopping you from eg. using MAC addresses instead of PCI slots for defining the names, just like one would have renamed them using MAC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb: If my desktop only has one Ethernet interface, no matter how many kernel changes happen, it'll always be eth0. That was not true with the old persistent naming. One example which we encountered in #gentoo IRC was the split between e1000 and e1000e drivers which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29/03/2013 12:29, Samuli Suominen wrote: One you can control, the another you can't. So still not FUD. You do not really control it any more than the kernel. The fact that me and you can edit an udev ruleset to control it, does not mean that most users see it as a black box. The news item

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29/03/2013 12:34, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb: If my desktop only has one Ethernet interface, no matter how many kernel changes happen, it'll always be eth0. That was not true with the old persistent naming. One example which we encountered in #gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 29/03/13 13:38, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 29/03/2013 12:29, Samuli Suominen wrote: One you can control, the another you can't. So still not FUD. You do not really control it any more than the kernel. The fact that me and you can edit an udev ruleset to control it, does not mean that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29/03/2013 13:20, Samuli Suominen wrote: I don't agree with that, /etc/udev/rules.d and overriding udev rules is very basic administration, very basic... I'll put a bit more trust on our users. Let's agree to disagree then. To me, it's much more consistent the kernel's behaviour than these

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/29/2013 08:20 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 29/03/13 13:38, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 29/03/2013 12:29, Samuli Suominen wrote: One you can control, the another you can't. So still not FUD. You do not really control it any more than the kernel. The fact that me and you can edit an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Freitag, 29. März 2013, 13:20:20 schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 29/03/13 13:38, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 29/03/2013 12:29, Samuli Suominen wrote: One you can control, the another you can't. So still not FUD. You do not really control it any more than the kernel. The fact that me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Not really. Every time I modified anything in there, it just took a few udev versions and suddenly I was flooded with deprecation warnings a la things work different now, find out on your own how to fix it... Not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 29/03/13 15:30, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Not really. Every time I modified anything in there, it just took a few udev versions and suddenly I was flooded with deprecation warnings a la things work different now, find

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: What do you have there? We cover bunch of those in pkg_postinst of udev already. After a bunch of cleanup (after which I have yet to detect any problems), I have: 70-persistent-cd.rules 70-persistent-net.rules

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 29/03/13 16:35, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: What do you have there? We cover bunch of those in pkg_postinst of udev already. After a bunch of cleanup (after which I have yet to detect any problems), I have:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Those 70-* and 80-* are in udev pkg_postinst, this news item, everywhere... can all 3 be deleted if you haven't modified them yourself. So that leaves one... local.rules... dunno about that. I'm curious. Excellent,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Markos Chandras
On 29 March 2013 16:21, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) nunojsi...@ist.utl.ptwrote: On 2013-03-29, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 29/03/2013 12:34, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb: If my desktop only has one Ethernet interface, no matter how

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: In my mind, the message says either remove 70-* and setup 80-* or your system will end up broken. The other bit is that modifying symlinks in /etc/init.d is only mentioned in passing. That is a VERY important step

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 29/03/13 18:21, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-29, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 29/03/2013 12:34, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb: If my desktop only has one Ethernet interface, no matter how many kernel changes happen,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I don't have enough time to go through the rest of this thread, but if the first sentence hasn't been adjusted yet: On 29/03/13 08:20 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: If you still have network interface renaming rules in /etc/udev/rules.d, like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29/03/2013 20:20, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: Might I recommend at least a little bit of context before going right into you have to remove these rules? IE - if a user wants to keep the old mac-based rules they already have, can't they? 80-*.rules doesn't override that now, does it? It

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 01:38:03PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: In my mind, the message says either remove 70-* and setup 80-* or your system will end up broken. The other bit is that modifying symlinks in