What is the best way to set variables depending on environment?

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> I'm just setting up the wireless network here, but I really can't see why
> whereami wouldn't work just as well on wireless.  Maybe by tomorrow I'll
> know.
> 
>> But I found a somewhat
>> good page concerning laptop-netconf, I'll see if I can configure the
>> interfaces correctly with that. Only grief I have is, does laptop-netconf
>> include auto-probing, or do I need to use guessnet or similar for passing
>> the correct network name to laptop-netconf for it to do its magic?
> 
> No idea.  I've used "intuitively" (which is fairly good, but I just have
> so much trouble typing "intuitively" any time I want to try to change
> something) and "whereami".  Whereami has the advantage of having one of
> the two most responsive maintainers I've ever seen, so if you post a
> question on debian-laptop you'll almost always get a quick solution.

OK, so for some reason whereami didn't immediately work, but I reran
whereami and it did automatically detect my wireless router and bring up
the interface, so I'm confident that it merely needs a tiny bit of
tweaking.
-- 
derek