on Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:04:31AM +0100, Frank F?rst (ffrank@rz.uni-potsdam.de) wrote: > I just did my daily apt-get upgrade, and finally the pcmcia-packages > also where upgraded, which have always been kept back since I > dist-upgraded from potato to woody in December. The new version is > 3.1.31. > > What is at least an annoying wishlist bug, if not more, is that the > network settings from the old /etc/pcmcia/network.opts have not been > transfered to the new file, and I was also not asked by debconf to put > in new values. It's been considered release critical by Joey Hess, though it may now be resolved. > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts contains all the things like IP-adress, > gateway and nameservers. Of course this file is not from the *.deb, it > has been created by a script when I first installed the network stuff > in potato. Then, this script must have asked me for the information > and put it into the file. > > Now, upon upgrade, debconf informed me that the file from the new > package differs from the existing file "created by you or a script", > as usual. What I think it should have done is either parse the old > file and put the data in the new one (at a first glance, the file > format seemed very different, however upon closer inspection it was > only the order and the comments that have changed, not the syntax), or > rather call again the script that originally created that file. > > As it is now, one has to manually edit the file to get back network > access. And if the problem persists upon a new installation, some > configuration script is missing that existed in potato. > > Should I report this as a bug? Can one comment wether this is really a > problem in pcmcia-cs or elsewhere? Does: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133968&repeatmerged=yes ...seem to relate? If not, there are a few other recently filed bugs to pcmcia-cs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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