Bug#3289: sysvinit wipes out network configuration

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu) wrote:
> Package: sysvinit
> Version: 2.62-1
> 
> The preinst for sysvinit recommends that files in /etc/init.d be installed
> unless "you have really changed any of these files".  Yet, /etc/init.d/network
> has automatically populated entries for ifconfig and route.  Installing
> sysvinit takes the machine off the net at the next boot.

Yes, that can really confuse newbies. I'll fix the text that is printed
by the postinst and some other things (mainly other text files) and I'll
release a 2.63

Mike.
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