On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm resubmitting my work of migrating to iproute2 from net-tools at Tom's > request. It's pretty much the same, but with the feedback from Dan, I've added > some extremely simple deprecation logic to yell at the user when he or she is > still using the net-tools variables. > > The new logic uses some fairly simple (and generic) declarations: interface, > address, netmask, and gateway. If interface is undefined, we fire off the > deprecation warning, as this is the _only_ variable required to establish > a connection via iproute2. If address is undefined, we skip reading netmask > and gateway, and assume usage of dhcp. If address _is_ defined, we assert > the need for gateway and netmask. > > I've opted to make this warning fairly common, firing it both on bringing up, > and bringing down interfaces, as I think this needs to be made very clear, > given the severity of the change. > > Along with this change, we would need to do a little bit of juggling with > coreutils and yp-tools in order to make net-tools truly optional: > > - coreutils is currently built without hostname. enable this, removing it from > net-tools. > - yp-tools is currently in extra. we would need to bring this into core in > order > to support setting a domainname, and remove the symlinks to hostname from the > net-tools package. > > As always, comments, criticisms, and tomatoes are welcome.
I pushed these patches now. I probably will hold off on a release for some time, to give people a chance to test this a bit more as a bug in this code could be critical. Thanks again for your work! Cheers, Tom
