On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:06:11PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I have had this when /etc/network/interfaces was not configured.
> > It needed to contain the following, which for some reason was not
> > configured during installation.
> > 
> > # The loopback interface
> > # automatically added when upgrading
>                              ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Should that be when *booting up* ? If it _is_ supposed to be upgrading,
> could you please explain what you mean ?

I believe it means that that part of /etc/network/interfaces was
automatically added when upgrading ifupdown. See
/usr/share/ifupdown/upgrade-from-0.5.x.pl, which is run by ifupdown's
postinst.

It doesn't mean that the *interface* is added when upgrading.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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