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Hi List |
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As some of you may be aware, I've started work on baselayout-2 which is |
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basically re-tooling it in C. One of the side goals is to eliminate the |
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need for using bash. You'll be pleased to know that it's working well |
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enough to boot Gentoo/FreeBSD. |
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Now, this email isn't about the merits of bash, nor the fact that it's |
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in base system profile so we can use it anyway, blah blah blah. |
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embedded has a vested interest in not using bash and I have a personal |
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interest as Gentoo/FreeBSD on Sparc64 takes a very long time to boot. |
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This email is about network configuration. Before I joined Gentoo, |
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network configuration was done in bash arrays like so (note, that the |
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variable name was changed in baselayout-1.11) |
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ifconfig_eth0=( |
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"10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" |
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"10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" |
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) |
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This is all well and good, but only bash and zsh can use it. Infact I'm |
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guilty as I embraced arrays and used them as the basis for our entire |
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network scripts. They have also served us well, but as they are also |
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array based they will have to be re-written too. |
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So, to free baselayout of forcing bash down our throats I/we am/are |
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looking at re-writing our network setup, including configuration. |
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Who's got any bright ideas for a new config then? Lets brain storm! |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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