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Bug 1616014

Summary: split the state setting of the network role into state and persistent_state
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
Component: rhel-system-rolesAssignee: Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Leos Pol <lpol>
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Version: 7.6CC: djez, ovasik, tbowling, till, vcrhonek, vdolezal
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Fixed In Version: rhel-system-roles-1.0-3.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2018-08-21 09:32:58 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Pavel Cahyna 2018-08-14 17:49:39 UTC 
The state setting of network connections confuses two concepts: persistent (on disk) state of the profile and operational state of the interface. It should be split into two orthogonal settings: state with values up and down and persistent_state with present and absent. To some extent persistent_state is analogous to the "enabled" parameter of the service module: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/service_module.html#service-module
Comment 2 Leos Pol 2018-08-20 07:48:24 UTC 
rhel-system-roles-1.0-4.el7:
upstream testsuite manually executed with ansible-2.5.7-1.el7ae and ansible-2.6.2-1.el7ae on x86_64.
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-08-21 09:32:58 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2531