Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145787
RFE: Split netscripts into separate sub-package
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:52:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: In order to add a package like the /etc/net scripts (see URL) to Fedora Alternatives, it would be useful to split out the networking components of initscripts, namely /sbin/{ifup,ifdown,netreport,ppp-watch} /etc/ppp/* /etc/rc.d/init.d/network /etc/sysconfig/{networking,network-scripts}/* /usr/sbin/usernetctl /usr/share/man/man1/{netreport.1,ppp-watch.8,usernetctl.8}.gz /var/run/netreport into a separate (sub-)package, say netscripts, that could be readily replaced by another package, say "etcnet" that provides "netscripts". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.04-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Additional info:
I doubt this is really something we'd want to pursue; it's a lot of packaging and build churn for not much Core benefit.
It might be doable as part of the general initscripts speed-up project discussed in bug 99540. Pending that, the interested user could do the hard work of repackaging initscripts with the desired split and supplying it as a complete drop-in replacement for initscripts at the etcnet project.
I'm working on /etc/net 0.8.0. As long as it is ready, I will start trying to pack it for Fedora Extras. I'm afraid I'll have to reopen this bug, hopefully with a patch ready. Thank you.