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Roy Marples wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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How about leaving baselayout depending on bash and make baselayout-lite |
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do whatever you want instead? |
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Such an upgrade will be a major pita for our entire user base, unless of |
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course you make conf.d/net syntax transition as easy as running |
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dispatch-conf. |
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