Bug 1284065

Summary:	Add ifrename.service
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	nucleo <alekcejk>
Component:	wireless-tools	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description nucleo 2015-11-20 17:10:20 UTC

Description of problem:
Service for renaming interfaces according to rules stored in /etc/iftab can be useful. Here example of ifrename.service unit file


[Unit]
Description=Rename network interfaces according to /etc/iftab
Wants=network.target
Before=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ifrename

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target



Also /etc/iftab config file with commented examples from 'man iftab' can be added.

Comment 1 Lubomir Rintel 2015-11-20 17:15:21 UTC

Please just set a NAME= attribute with an udev rule.

It provides a superset of the ifrename functionality without a need for an extra service.