Re: [SSI-users] can't access public nic

[John H. <jo...@Ca...>]

I've updated the instructions at 
http://deb.openssi.org/alpha/openssi-lenny/ to cope with the changes in 
apt-get's behaviour and show how to set up the udev/rules.d directory 
correctly.  The important bit is:

   1.

      apt-get dist-upgrade
          

      This should replace all the standard versions of the packages by
      our modified versions. However apt-get seems to have changed its
      behaviour, it no longer considers some downgrades, so now we have
      to do:
   2.

      apt-get install udev
          

      At this point you will be warned that the running kernel will be
      removed.  This is because of a necessary downgrade of udev.  Allow
      it to happen.

      :-(  Warning - your system is unbootable starting from this point.

      (We only need this step because apt-get seems not to notice that
      udev needs downgrading on an "apt-get dist-upgrade", it used to
      work. This is annoying).

   3. As the udev install is not smart enough to fix it's configuration
      files after a downgrade we need to do it manualy:

      rm /etc/udev/rules.d/*
      sh -c 'source /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst abort-deconfigure; create_rules_symlink'
          


Admittedly the shell command is rather barbaric, but it does the job.