Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:45:04PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Please don't do this. It sounds to me like a stupid move, what are you
> trying to accomplish? You already use Git/GitHub...
> Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
> flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
>

robbat2 is the one who made the request. He wants to do a couple of
things:

1) he wants to be able to have independent oldnet releases so he can get
more features into the oldnet scripts and have his own development
cycle.

2) He is also interested in working on making the oldnet scripts able to
run under systemd.

William

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:16 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > it has been suggested that gentoo's oldnet scripts be split out into
> > their own package separate from OpenRC so that they can be developed
> > independently. I am looking at doing this for OpenRC 0.12, which I hope
> > to release soon.
> >
> > This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* scripts
> > will no longer be included. I am going to call the separate package that
> > includes these scripts gentoo-oldnet.
> >
> > My plan is  to write a newsitem when OpenRC 0.12 is released
> > telling users this and that they will have to emerge gentoo-oldnet to
> > get the gentoo networking scripts or turn on the newnet (maybe I'll
> > change this to net) use flag to get OpenRC's network scripts installed
> > and put ewarns in the ebuild if this use flag is turned off.
> >
> > I feel that a newsitem and ewarns in the OpenRC ebuild cover live
> > systems well. In a nutshell, users should pay attention to their news
> > items and ewarns.
> >
> > On the other hand, some are suggesting that I should add a runtime
> > dependency to OpenRC so that it pulls in gentoo-oldnet. Since OpenRC
> > doesn't need gentoo-oldnet in order to run, I feel like this would be
> > abusing dependencies.
> >
> > Does anyone have any thoughts?
> >
> > William
> >
>