[arch-projects] [netctl] 'netctl enable' breakage with tuntap/bonding/bridge

[Jouke Witteveen]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> When running 'netctl enable' on a tuntap interface, netctl assumes from
> BindsToInterfaces being unset that it should depend on the interface
> itself (an interface that is only created when the profile is started).
> This means that after running 'netctl enable' on a tuntap profile, it
> cannot be started anymore (in particular, it will not start on boot).
>
> The same problem exists if you want to create a bridge or bonding
> interface with no slaves (I often create empty dummy bridges that gain
> interfaces on the fly, but by default those bridges have no slaves).
>
> netctl's unit_enable needs to learn how to distinguish these cases from
> the ones where BindsToInterfaces is set to Interface.
>
> On a related note, if sd_escape (in netctl) is called with an empty
> argument list, which happens if you try to work around this issue, your
> whole environment is dumped into a systemd file. It needs a check for $#
> == 0.
>

How about the changes in git? Can you test connection types other than
ethernet and wired? If it looks okay, I could tag another release for
[testing] and we can start thinking about a move to [core] (i.e. draft
a news item).

Thanks,
- Jouke