[Debian] Re: Bug#514001: vzctl: Make /etc/network/interfaces head and tail customizable

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Ivan

This would probably be a good thing. I'll check this when lenny is released
and also inform upstream about this (cc:ed).

Best regards,

// Ola

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:35:49AM +0100, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote:
> Package: vzctl
> Version: 3.0.22-14
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> ``/etc/vz/dists/scripts/debian-add_ip.sh`` generates the virtual machine's
> ``/etc/network/interfaces`` by appending virtual interface configuration to the
> VM's ``/etc/network/interfaces.template``.  Besides the name being quite
> misleading (it's not a template at all), there are serious problems if one just
> wants to enable an additional interface *after* the other ones (e.g. for
> setting a new alias on ``venet0`` for private communication with the host).
> 
> The attached patch enables the use of ``/etc/network/interfaces.head`` as well
> as ``/etc/network/interfaces.tail``.  The first one is appended to the
> resulting ``interfaces`` file *before* the virtual interface info (and before
> the so-called "template"), and the second one is appended at the end.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages vzctl depends on:
> ii  iproute                     20080725-2   networking and traffic control too
> ii  libc6                       2.7-18       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  vzquota                     3.0.11-1iti1 server virtualization solution - q
> 
> Versions of packages vzctl recommends:
> ii  rsync                         3.0.5-1    fast remote file copy program (lik
> 
> Versions of packages vzctl suggests:
> pn  linux-patch-openvz            <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information



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