From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EA2138010 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FA50E002D; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:28:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F212E0869 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:28:12 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KEm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEFOhwzCxgJEwcLDwUlNxqHd8EtjWGCSGEDjX6IDoV+iHCBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KEm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEFOhwzCxgJEwcLDwUlNxqHd8EtjWGCSGEDjX6IDoV+iHCBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="6076136" Received: from 206-248-161-38.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.161.38]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2013 18:28:03 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:27:39 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:27:39 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt Message-ID: <20130329222739.GA4966@waltdnes.org> References: <51556C3A.1020803@gentoo.org> <515570F2.2030902@flameeyes.eu> <515571D8.7030008@gentoo.org> <5155749A.5010302@flameeyes.eu> <51557C50.7060404@gentoo.org> <51557DB2.1090202@flameeyes.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 93fa3713-491f-4e25-a110-1d20d8a2228a X-Archives-Hash: 362d55cf41debad39b2fae1d0bb9f16e On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 01:38:03PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Markos Chandras 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 unless your new > name happens to be the same as your old one, otherwise on the next > boot the system will not have a working network interface, which will > hamper efforts to fix for casual/new users, and cause real trouble for > those doing remote administration (though anybody doing anything > serious on a remotely-administered box should have some kind of > console-level access outside of the OS - like serial console or > iLO/etc support). That's only the beginning for the necessary changes. I'm running mdev on this machine, so it won't affect me, but here goes... [d531][root][~] grep -rl eth[0-9] /etc/* /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/network /etc/conf.d/netmount /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf /etc/hibernate/common.conf /etc/rc.conf I've eliminated some specific stuff that only I do. * /etc/conf.d/net Is going to have to be modified by users. * I believe /etc/conf.d/network is a doc file for /etc/conf.d/net. * /etc/conf.d/netmount Who changes that? * /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf It's an app, but may require changes. * /etc/hibernate/common.conf It's an app, but may require changes. * /etc/rc.conf Is going to have to be modified by users. "Fun" for users, and app upstreams. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications