Re: netcfg: supposed to use use_autoconfig, or disable_autoconfig? [Was: Bug#838948: [patch] preseed appendix of d-i manual: use_autoconfig]
Hello,
Hopefully a netcfg hacker will read this?
Vincent McIntyre, on Tue 27 Sep 2016 10:38:03 +1000, wrote:
> For some years the disable_autoconfig preseed has been shown
> in the appendix on preseeding. However setting that just sets
> use_autoconfig appropriately. Yet use_autoconfig is not even
> mentioned in the appendix, ever.
>
> There might be something I'm missing here, such as disable_autoconfig
> is the only thing that works if you pass it on the boot command line.
> I might also be misinterpreting 'manual configuration' as meaning
> 'set up an "iface ethX inet static" stanza in /etc/network/interfaces'.
>
> If not, is it time to start deprecating use of disable_auotconfig?
> I realise it was needed in the past but the code has been fixed.
I don't know. Digging in the git history shows that disable_dhcp
(original name for disable_autoconfig) was introduced *after* use_dhcp
(original name for use_autoconfig). So it's most probably not a
deprecation, and disable_autoconfig would supposed to be used, not
use_autoconfig. Joshua, any idea about it?
> --- preseed.xml (revision 70296)
> +++ preseed.xml (working copy)
> @@ -882,6 +882,10 @@
>
> # If you prefer to configure the network manually, uncomment this line and
> # the static network configuration below.
> +#d-i netcfg/use_autoconfig boolean false
> +
> +# The following also forces manual configuration, but is deprecated
> +# for end user preseed files. It will set use_autoconfig to false.
> #d-i netcfg/disable_autoconfig boolean true
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Vince
> --
>
--
Samuel
#ifndef I_WISH_WORLD_WERE_PERFECT
/* It is not :-( All the routers (except for Linux) return only
...
-+- linux/net/ipv4/ipip.c -+-
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