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Bug#698626: Preseeding netcfg/enable doesn't work



Hi,

On 21/01/13 10:21, Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote:
> I preseed the installer with "d-i netcfg/enable boolean false".
> 
> netcfg 1.103 ignores it at two places and writes the file
> /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> The second write in finish-install.d/55netcfg-copy-config overwrites my
> own interface config.

It will do that if netcfg/target_network_config is set to nm_config or
loopback.  Is nm_config the default now?

The same issue was mentioned at
[🔎] 50F9B2F5.8050000@pyro.eu.org">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 50F9B2F5.8050000@pyro.eu.org

I think it will only preserve your /etc/network/interfaces file if set
to "ifupdown".  Not sure if that was intentional but seems more like a
bug/regression.

> I fixed it with the attached patch. Preseeding netcfg/enable worked with
> squeeze.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org


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