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.

Fixed in 2.63-1, where the preinst script warns against installing a
new version of "network".

Mike.
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