Debian Bug report logs - #809169
[PATCH] Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>

To: Debian BTS Submit <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Cc: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>

Subject: [PATCH] Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces

Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:33:14 +0100

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Package: ifupdown
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.8.4
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch xenial

Hello,

In https://launchpad.net/bugs/1294807 it was reported that the "mtu"
and "hwaddress" options do not work with "manual" interfaces. Stéphane
(CC'ed) fixed this in Ubuntu a while ago. This seems useful for Debian
as well, so I adjusted this to current Debian git head.

Thanks for considering,

Martin

-- 
Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)

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Message #10 received at 809169@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>, 809169@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#809169: [PATCH] Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces

Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:54:45 +0100

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 08:33:14PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> In https://launchpad.net/bugs/1294807 it was reported that the "mtu"
> and "hwaddress" options do not work with "manual" interfaces. Stéphane
> (CC'ed) fixed this in Ubuntu a while ago. This seems useful for Debian
> as well, so I adjusted this to current Debian git head.

Thanks a lot, I applied the patch and pushed it!

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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Message #15 received at 809169@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>

To: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>, 809169@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#809169: [PATCH] Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:02:38 +0100

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Hey Guus,

Guus Sliepen [2015-12-27 20:54 +0100]:
> Thanks a lot, I applied the patch and pushed it!

Cool, thanks! Please note that the patch did not add a changelog
entry, sorry about that. Can you please add that and Closes: #809169?

Thanks,

Martin
-- 
Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)

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Message #20 received at 809169@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>, 809169@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#809169: [PATCH] Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:29:45 +0100

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:02:38AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> > Thanks a lot, I applied the patch and pushed it!
> 
> Cool, thanks! Please note that the patch did not add a changelog
> entry, sorry about that. Can you please add that and Closes: #809169?

Done. However, I changed the inet manual definition a bit to only set
the MTU or hardware address, and not bring the interface up. This is
especially important when the interface stanza's name doesn't match any
network interface known by the kernel.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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Message #25 received at 809169-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: 809169-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#809169: fixed in ifupdown 0.8.5

Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 23:49:24 +0000

Source: ifupdown
Source-Version: 0.8.5

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ifupdown, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 809169@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> (supplier of updated ifupdown package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:41:49 +0100
Source: ifupdown
Binary: ifupdown
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.8.5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
Changed-By: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
Description:
 ifupdown   - high level tools to configure network interfaces
Closes: 809169 809171
Changes:
 ifupdown (0.8.5) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Stéphane Graber ]
   * Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces. Closes: #809169
 .
   [ Guus Sliepen ]
   * Remove Depends/Replaces/Breaks for ancient packages.
   * Move ifupdown related files from the systemd and udev packages to this
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Message #30 received at 809169@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>

To: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>, 809169@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#809169: [PATCH] Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:58:36 +0100

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Hello Guus,

Guus Sliepen [2015-12-30 21:29 +0100]:
> However, I changed the inet manual definition a bit to only set the
> MTU or hardware address, and not bring the interface up. This is
> especially important when the interface stanza's name doesn't match
> any network interface known by the kernel.

OK. The Ubuntu change documents that as 

  The above change also means that manual interfaces will now be
  brought up and down (as many users expected until now)

which sounds plausible to me. However, I don't really know the
background of that change, so if you think it's inappropriate in
Debian then I'll keep it as an Ubuntu delta.

Thanks,

Martin
-- 
Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)

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Message #35 received at 809169@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>, 809169@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#809169: [PATCH] Allow setting the MTU and HWADDR on manual interfaces

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:31:56 +0100

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On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> OK. The Ubuntu change documents that as 
> 
>   The above change also means that manual interfaces will now be
>   brought up and down (as many users expected until now)
> 
> which sounds plausible to me. However, I don't really know the
> background of that change, so if you think it's inappropriate in
> Debian then I'll keep it as an Ubuntu delta.

I think it is inappropriate regardless of which distribution you use.
The whole point of a manual interface is that you configure it yourself.
It migt not even be a network interface as known to the kernel, so an "ip
link set dev $INTERFACE up" command might fail.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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