Re: Wheezy removed ifupdown
On Sun, 20 May 2012 18:43:36 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 16:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Ramon Hofer
>> <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> But the problem is when I do a dist-upgrade it will ignore the
>>> ifupdown package? Should I now just install the package with apt-get
>>> again? And why did this happen?
>>
>> It happened because you upgraded netbase, which arrived in wheezy
>> before the required version of ifupdown migrated. I spotted this
>> myself. Simply by waiting 24 hrs, the relevant version of ifupfown
>> migrated, and the next package upgrade passed without issue. To avoid
>> problems, make sure the version of ifupdown that you (re)install is
>> 0.7~rc3.
>>
>> Hopefully, you can learn a useful lesson from this; Don't blindly
>> accept every change apt-get wants to make. Especially if it's a
>> package removal.
>
> Especially since apt warns you that it's about to remove ifupdown...
I "blindy" removed the package (heck, this is testing, so the change
could be necessary...) but I didn't notice any problem, maybe because I'm
using NM :-).
Reinstalling now...
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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