Bug 480578 - move the classic network configuration scripts out of the initscripts package
Summary: move the classic network configuration scripts out of the initscripts package
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FedoraServerTracker
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Reported: 2009-01-19 09:04 UTC by Dan Horák
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-19 19:22:30 UTC
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Description Dan Horák 2009-01-19 09:04:22 UTC
With the recent development that makes NetworkManager the default mechanism for network configuration I would like to move the classic network configuration scripts out of the initscripts package into a separate package with me as the submitter/owner of the new package.

affected files:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*
related part of sysconfig.txt

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2009-01-19 19:21:50 UTC
To the best of my (occasionally fuzzy) recollection:

- you've never submitted patches for the scripts
- you've never filed bugs against them
- you've never applied even for access to upstream git
  (of course, the first two would be a prerequisite for that)

Ergo, no.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2009-01-19 19:22:30 UTC
Without a usage case as to what this would accomplish/serve, I'm not seeing a big reason why this would need to be done.

Comment 3 Dan Horák 2009-01-19 22:30:51 UTC
Well, I have got the impression during the previous few months that this feature will be depreciated in the really near future because we have NM. So I am glad to see you are still ready to maintain the scripts as a part of initscripts. But please let me know, when you would like to drop them out.

Comment 4 Dan Horák 2009-01-20 07:59:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> To the best of my (occasionally fuzzy) recollection:
> 
> - you've never submitted patches for the scripts
> - you've never filed bugs against them
> - you've never applied even for access to upstream git
>   (of course, the first two would be a prerequisite for that)
> 
> Ergo, no.

Are those really required for an overtake of a to-be-abandoned feature? I don't think so.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2009-01-20 18:06:53 UTC
It's a maintained subsystem, so... yes.

What sorts of changes do you want to make?

Comment 6 Dan Horák 2009-01-20 20:44:13 UTC
No changes are planned, it works well AFAIK. I (and the server and other people) just want to make sure it survives, because its role is non-replaceable due the number of variants it allows to configure and no resource usage.

But the split would show a distinction between classic and NM network setups.


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