Bug#638718: debootstrap: please add loopback configuration to /etc/network/interfaces
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.26+squeeze1
Severity: wishlist
I'm filing this against debootstrap because the system was installed
using debootstrap and /etc/network/interfaces isn't owned by any
package, so my best guess is that the file was created by debootstrap.
Feel free to reassign this ticket as appropriate.
The default /etc/network/interfaces contains no configuration at all.
However having the loopback interface up and running is important for
many programs. Please add loopback configuration to the default
/etc/network/interfaces like debian-installer does:
=== Begin ===
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
=== End ===
For chroots this doesn't hurt (/etc/init.d/ifupdown won't get called),
but for "real" systems it's crucial.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
debootstrap suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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