[plug] Interface not being brought up on bootup

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:25:31PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| I beg to differ! My thinking was that (a) netkit and inetutils-tools
| should use the alternatives system for the provision of 'ifconfig'; (b)
| inetutils-tools should not pretend to provide netkit; (c) ifupdown
| should depend on netkit and use the full path to its ifconfig (i.e. if
| they're using the alternatives system then each package should have an
| indisputable name for its own version of ifconfig, and ifupdown should
| make use of that).

That could work. :-)  It might still break backwards compatibility in
other packages which assume that ifupdown works vaguely like netkit
ifupdown does.

Cameron.

_______________________________________________
plug mailing list
plug at plug.linux.org.au
http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug