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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans
From: Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 21:28 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 22:22 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> > Is there a common bug to report snags to? I've hit one:
> > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 used to be a symlink to net.lo. After
> > installing, it was gone (I figure it went with baselayout-1).
> > Luckily, I have direct console access, otherwise the machine
> > would have been gone after the reboot. Definitely something to
> > yell about during merging.
> 
> We don't ship with net.eth0 because there is no guarantee an interface
> called eth0 exists. net.lo (net.lo0 in *BSDs) always exists so we just
> ship that.

One very good idea would be to get udev to create any net links that do
not exist to net.lo

Then we truly have plug and play :)

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