From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:10:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130425011023.GB3133@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51786B9C.9070607@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:32:44PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
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> On 04/24/2013 07:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:34:46PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:16:51PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote
> >>
> >>> Considering our default configuration ships sshd (an argument we don't
> >>> need to rehash here), it seems a bit silly to not ship networking
> >>> support by default. I'd rather not do it as part of the system set,
> >>> though that would be consistent with what we're doing with ssh, and it
> >>> is still override-able.
> >> To handle the various possible cases, maybe we need a "virtual/net" as
> >> part of the system set, which can be satisfied by either oldnet or
> >> newnet or whatever. The install ISO will have a basic working network
> >> stack (IPV4+IPV6). After the initial install, the admin can do
> >> whatever. Maybe even invoke package.provided.
> >
> > This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in OpenRC.
> > I would probably call it virtual/network-manager though.
> >
> You can't call it virtual/network-manager, that calls to mind, you know,
> net-misc/networkmanager. That's just too confusing imho. I wouldn't
> object to virtual/net, or pretty much anything else that isn't
> confusing. The net scripts are not a network manager, networkmanager,
> wicd, even wpa_supplicant would be things I would consider to be network
> managers.
But the oldnet scripts do run wpa_supplicant, dhcp clients, etc, for
each interface they manage.
Newnet doesn't even try that, it just manages static interfaces and
assumes that you will use a dhcp client or something like wpa_supplicant
in standalone mode to control your interfaces.
William
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-24 16:16 [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC William Hubbs
2013-04-24 16:45 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-04-24 17:01 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-24 17:30 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-24 21:00 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-04-24 16:58 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-04-24 17:23 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-24 17:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-24 17:54 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-24 18:16 ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-24 18:30 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-25 21:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-04-26 8:41 ` Tobias Klausmann
2013-04-26 8:58 ` Tobias Klausmann
2013-04-26 11:20 ` Michael Mol
2013-04-26 16:24 ` »Q«
2013-04-24 22:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Walter Dnes
2013-04-24 23:17 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-24 23:32 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-25 0:05 ` Carlos Silva
2013-04-25 1:10 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2013-04-25 1:39 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-04-25 2:12 ` Zac Medico
2013-04-25 18:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-25 18:27 ` G.Wolfe Woodbury
2013-04-25 18:54 ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-25 19:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-24 18:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-24 22:18 ` Patrick McLean
2013-04-26 17:27 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-04-26 18:12 ` Robin H. Johnson
2013-04-26 18:14 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-04-26 18:53 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-25 3:13 ` Alec Warner
2013-04-25 3:32 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-24 19:00 ` Michał Górny
2013-04-24 19:17 ` William Hubbs
2013-04-25 19:09 ` vivo75
2013-04-25 23:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-26 8:44 ` Tobias Klausmann
2013-04-25 16:50 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2013-04-25 16:58 ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-25 17:13 ` Carlos Silva
2013-04-25 17:17 ` Peter Stuge
2013-04-25 17:18 ` Carlos Silva
2013-04-25 17:23 ` Peter Stuge
2013-04-25 17:23 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-04-25 22:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-04-25 22:51 ` Carlos Silva
2013-04-25 23:12 ` Peter Stuge
2013-04-25 23:15 ` Ambroz Bizjak
2013-04-26 8:37 ` Duncan
2013-04-25 23:49 ` [gentoo-dev] OldNet out of OpenRC: as the requester Robin H. Johnson
2013-04-26 10:13 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-04-26 14:14 ` [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC Luca Barbato
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