Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.5.1 arrived in the tree

[Ed W]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 09 October 2009 13:57:07 Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
>
>> As some of you have waited long for this to happen, sys-apps/openrc-0.5.1
>>  is there.
>>
>
> btw, i didnt thank you for handling this.  so thanks.  uNF.
> -mike
>

I'm really, really late in on this thread, but just in case anyone wants 
to work on some docs for this, the big picture change here seems to be 
that Roy is very strongly driving down the route that his dhcpcd project 
should start to handle nearly all configuration of interfaces.  Now this 
is quite an interesting approach and you have a whole bunch of hook 
scripts that allow you to control quite a lot of stuff as interfaces 
come up and down

I believe the reason he is dropping the old network scripts is 
complexity of code rather than a statement that they weren't useful.  I 
rather hope that the final outcome will be a new, but simpler version of 
what we currently have (with simpler code) - the logic being that dhcpcd 
will remove much of the current configuration required... (perhaps)

So right now the "new" network scripts are roughly "bring your own 
interface up", and then the idea is dhcpcd takes over and finishes the 
job (the emphasis here is that you only need to bring the interface up, 
not much else)

Dunno, seems like an interesting change which is only 3/4 implemented so 
far - lets see where it goes from here.  Certainly the new dhcp daemon 
is rather spiffy though and well worth checking out (top tip is 
basically to disable the dhcp module in openrc and/or ensure that dhcpcd 
is started well before any networking scripts, wierd things happen 
otherwise)

Final tip seems to be that there are actually a lot of openrc docs, but 
they are all man pages.  If you don't realise this then you will not 
find a lot of info on the web and feel rather disappointed...

Hope this helps someone?

Ed W