Bug#680070: live-boot-initramfs-tools: Booting with fetch mechanism over tftp fails because of empty ${DEVICE} variable

To: Lars Eric Scheidler <lars_eric.scheidler@affinitas.de>, 680070@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#680070: live-boot-initramfs-tools: Booting with fetch mechanism over tftp fails because of empty ${DEVICE} variable
From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:48:27 +0100
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Reply-to: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>, 680070@bugs.debian.org
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2012, Lars Eric Scheidler wrote:
> Booting with fetch mechanism over tftp fails because of empty ${DEVICE} variable
> Attached is a patch to fix this issue.

Is this still a problem in today's live-boot? It looks like to me
that DEVICE should be set by Select_eth_device() and then sourced by
Live() before do_netsetup() is actually called.

I'm happy to take an updated patch if the problem is still present.

Cheers,
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