F19 server install experience

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 3 14:45:53 UTC 2013


"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg at gmail.com) said: 
> >Apologies, I haven't had time to do investigation. The note in CommonBugs is
> >certainly correct as far as anaconda using biosdevname by default still - if
> >there are other consequences where different names are written to the
> >interface configuration by anaconda than what are assigned with
> >udev/systemd, that would exacerbate things further.
> >
> 
> Should not biosdevice names be dropped from the release now that
> udev [1] has replaced it's behaviour ?

(repeating what has been said in these discussions multiple times before)

Users want to be able to use biosdevname via configuration. Given how
anaconda and NM interact, that makes it more complicated than just dropping
it. Hence the patches from upthread.

Bill


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