Comment 7 for bug 1763534

Maas is being fixed to use “ip” instead of ifconfig. The reason why it
wasn’t noticed before is because MAAS does only use LTS releases for
commissioning. Since we only run ifconfig -a during commissioning, then the
regression wasn’t found till recently.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:10 PM Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
wrote:

> OTOH, it's also been this way since zesty and no one else seems to have
> cared until now that it regressed. I think the effort is better spent
> fixing maas to not depend on deprecated tools.
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> ifconfig -s (or -a -s) only outputs 8 characters of the interface
> name, when interfaces are 10+ characters.
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