Bug#629060: update-hostname vs. network-manager
On Freitag, 3. Juni 2011, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Holger Levsen]
>
> > still I'm thinking whether the dhclient-exit-hook should be moved to
> > /etc/network/if-down.d for consistency reasons?
>
> It is done in to dhclient-exit-hooks.d to ensure it is called alsof
> for those not using ifupdown
ifupdown is the documented and standard interface. if you dont use it, you're
supposed to be on your own. its used by network-manager, dhcp, wicd, etc - so
its really only not used if you do things by hand..
> , and only for those using DHCP (and not
> for static IP, which is expected to also have a fixed hostname set).
so its useless and best to be removed, to keep things simple.
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