Debian Bug report logs - #536512
ppp configuration sets wrong inetrface eth0

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From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ppp configuration sets wrong inetrface eth0

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:11:19 -0400

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Package: ez-ipupdate
Version: 3.0.11b8-13.3
Severity: normal

If the debconf configuration is told to use ppp,
it generates a default.conf that contains:

interface=eth0

Which is certianly wrong. On this system, there is not
even an eth0 interface! The right interface is almost
certianly ppp0.

debconf-show provides a hint as to the problem:

* ez-ipupdate/password: (password omitted)
* ez-ipupdate/service_type: dyndns
* ez-ipupdate/username: (omitted)
  ez-ipupdate/server:
  ez-ipupdate/dns_wildcard: false
  ez-ipupdate/dns_mx:
* ez-ipupdate/hostname: (omitted)
  ez-ipupdate/interface: eth0
* ez-ipupdate/ppp: true

The interface question is not shown in this code path,
but it still has a default value, and the postinst
unconditionally writes this out to the config file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel

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