Please add patches to support the 'source' stanza in interface files and to support '/etc/network/interfaces.d/'

Just a comment to make this clearer: augeas was last released upstream as version 1.1.0 on June 2013. The patches mentioned here were applied in August 2013, so even though the Ubuntu package is up to date, these patches are missing and they are important for anybody using the "source" keyword in their /etc/network/interfaces, which is related to using /etc/network/interfaces.d.

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Marga

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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I've uploaded a distro-patched version to my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~racb/+archive/experimental). Please could someone test to make sure this works as expected and there are no regressions?

I think it makes sense to carry a distro patch for this functionality, but I'd like a sponsor to confirm. If anybody can comment with further justification, that would be appreciated.

I also encourage upstream to release, so that we don't have to carry a patch.

Let my update my Trusty VM and give it a test run...
Will report back with the results soon.

Works like a charm. ^^

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0 inet6 auto

$ dpkg -l | grep augeas
ii augeas-lenses 1.1.0-0ubuntu4~ppa1 all Set of lenses needed by libaugeas0 to parse config files
ii augeas-tools 1.1.0-0ubuntu4~ppa1 amd64 Augeas command line tools
ii libaugeas0 1.1.0-0ubuntu4~ppa1 amd64 Augeas configuration editing library and API

$ augtool ls /files/etc/network
interfaces.d/ = (none)
interfaces/ = (none)

$ augtool print /files/etc/network/interfaces
/files/etc/network/interfaces
/files/etc/network/interfaces/source = "/etc/network/interfaces.d/*"

$ augtool ls /files/etc/network/interfaces.d
loopback.conf/ = (none)
primary.conf/ = (none)

$ augtool print /files/etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf/auto
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf/auto/1 = "lo"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf/iface = "lo"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf/iface/family = "inet"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/loopback.conf/iface/method = "loopback"

$ augtool print /files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/auto
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/auto/1 = "eth0"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/iface[1] = "eth0"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/iface[1]/family = "inet"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/iface[1]/method = "dhcp"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/iface[2] = "eth0"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/iface[2]/family = "inet6"
/files/etc/network/interfaces.d/primary.conf/iface[2]/method = "auto"

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This bug was fixed in the package augeas - 1.1.0-0ubuntu4

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augeas (1.1.0-0ubuntu4) trusty; urgency=medium

  * d/p/etc-network-interfaces-{source-stanza,d}.patch: add support for source
    stanza and /etc/network/interfaces.d/ directory; cherry-picked from
    upstream (LP: #1270881).
 -- Robie Basak <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:23:41 -0600

Thanks everyone for taking care of this so quickly.