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On Thursday 25 April 2013 15:09:28 vivo75@×××××.com wrote: |
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> On 04/24/13 21:17, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:00:17PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:16:06 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> >>> This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* scripts |
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> >>> will no longer be included. I am going to call the separate package |
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> >>> that includes these scripts gentoo-oldnet. |
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> >> Aside all the other, please don't name it like this :). It's just feels |
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> >> wrong to start new and supposedly beneficial project and name it 'old' |
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> >> like something you just thrown away off the main tree. |
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> > The name is also per robbat2's request. I asked him about other names, |
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> > but he specifically wanted oldnet in the name. |
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> > |
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> > A little bit of historical background may be in order here. |
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> > In a nutshell, it is called old because Roy wanted to deprecate the |
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> > whole thing eventually and switch us over to the newnet scripts that |
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> > OpenRC has. |
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> > name. |
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> > We thought about killing off newnet entirely for a while in OpenRC, but |
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> > I have since found that people do use it. It is more similar to what |
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> > happens on the *bsd side, and it works well for simple setups. |
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> s/it works well for simple setups/it work wonderfully for very complex |
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> setups/ |
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> It can mimic very closely the 'ip' command, making it easy to test on |
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> commandline and just copy and paste in conf.d/net. |
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> At the same time it benefit from a lot of howtos and tutorials written |
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> for sys-apps/iproute2 |
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> "old"net is the best network manager out there including all major distro. |
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William is talking about newnet when he says "works well for simple setups" |
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-mike |