Using biosdevname by default?

[Stéphane Graber]

On 02/07/2012 06:08 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:48:32PM -0500, James M. Leddy wrote:
>> On 02/06/2012 01:06 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>> I'm unsure the timeline John's team will be able to commit to finding
>>> and fixing these things.  Feature freeze sounds a bit tight to me.  I've
>>> offered to help to review and sponsor his team's fixes however as they
>>> find them.
>>
>> I suspect that the hard part of this is installer changes, especially
>> since the scripts and applications that break as a result of using
>> biosdevname are probably not too distro-specific.
>
> No, the necessary installer changes are small and easily handled.  It's
> the knock-on effects on the rest of the distribution that will take
> time.

Correct, and the bits that'd break are very distro-specific, think 
upstart jobs, udev rules and scripts included in packages like 
ifenslave-2.6, bridge-utils, vlan, ifupdown.

All of these either come from Debian or are completely Ubuntu specific, 
as far as I know, none of these directly come from upstream, so it's 
unlikely that anything that was fixed for Fedora can be applied as-is to 
Ubuntu.



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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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