Bug 831680
| Summary: | Prioritize keyfile over ifcfg-rh in Fedora rawhide | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) <psimerda> | ||||
| Component: | NetworkManager | Assignee: | Dan Williams <dcbw> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | danw, dcbw, gczarcinski | ||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-05-07 13:46:06 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
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Description
Pavel Šimerda (pavlix)
2012-06-13 14:47:48 UTC
Hi again, please let me restate the request. I actually had nothing against backwards compatibility with ifcfg-rh. My original posting was a bit mistaken. What I would actually like, is to prefer keyfile over ifcfg-rh. This would be done by having this in the NetworkManager.conf: plugins=keyfile,ifcfg-rh Keyfile is superior to ifcfg-rh in many ways and users could still make use of backwards-complatible ifcfg plugin. We still haven't figured out the whole network config file format debate, and I don't necessarily think that for Fedora, 'keyfile' is (or should) win that debate. Yes, it's a lot more capable than ifcfg-rh, but there are other approaches as well, like netcf and whatever Lennart's proposal ends up as. I don't want to make a chagne like this until we have a better agreement with all the stakeholders as to what the future network config file format for Fedora and RHEL should actually be. (note that if keyfile *was* a proposed future format, we should really analyze it in detail and make sure all the keys are in the format we want them to be in, and that it's easily able to be modified in the future. Stuff like static routes and addresses aren't very flexible at the moment, and we should change that) Created attachment 605218 [details]
A patch to upgrade to 0.9.6.0 with plugins=keyfile,ifcfg-rh
As anyone can change the configuration in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf, this change would make GUI-configured
connections all be saved in the same format.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19 I'm no longer asking for this change. Feel free to reopen if interested. |