Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization update
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:47:04
Message-Id: 4C973B7D.3050307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization update by William Hubbs
1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
2 Hash: SHA1
3
4 On 09/19/2010 09:22 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:05:46AM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
6 >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:57 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
7 wrote:
8 >>> I suppose one question I need to ask is the oldnet vs newnet question.
9 >>> The git repository defaults to building and installing the newnet
10 >>> option, and we make oldnet the default in the ebuild.
11 >>>
12 >>> People migrating from stable will know the oldnet option, and this is
13 >>> the only way to configure the network scripts that is actually covered
14 >>> in our documentation.
15 >>>
16 >>> Do we want to switch the upstream repository to make oldnet the default?
17 >>>
18 >>> What about newnet. ??Should we keep it at all? ??If we do, should we put
19 >>> it behind a use flag which would be off by default?
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >> Is there any advantage to using newnet over oldnet? If there aren't
23 >> any advantages, we should not attempt to support it (even as an
24 >> optional feature). Old-net by default, no use-flag for newnet; people
25 >> can use EXTRA_ECONF if they *really* want to use it.
26 >
27 > If I go this route, I'll probably just get rid of newnet in the next
28 > release entirely.
29 >
30 > newnet is a single script, "network", which sets up all of the static
31 > routes and static interfaces.
32 >
33 > It is small and simple, but the disadvantage of it is that you can't
34 > stop/start a single interface.
35 >
36 > William
37 >
38
39 Why can't we keep both? There are strong advantages/disadvantages
40 either way and there are users invested in both new/oldnet. I know
41 this is more work on doc writers, but I don't think that will equal
42 the pain users will experience being forced one way or another.
43
44 - --
45 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
46 Gentoo Developer
47 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
48 Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux)
49 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
50
51 iEYEARECAAYFAkyXO30ACgkQl5yvQNBFVTVhuQCbBG2owroUS8ZFko2oEE1ZIYgQ
52 rZ0An19HgxWA9Ltat3owfIB5cvqjdRGE
53 =YqFX
54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization update "Michał Górny" <gentoo@××××××××××.pl>
Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization update Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>