Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Le 29/01/2014 22:18, akhiezer a écrit :
>>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:03:57 +0100
>>> From: Pierre Labastie <pierre.labas...@neuf.fr>
>>> To: BLFS Development List <blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] create-service-dir in blfs-booscripts
>>>
>>> Le 29/01/2014 19:18, dueff...@uwe-dueffert.de a écrit :
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, akhiezer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:32:15 +0100
>>>>>> From: Pierre Labastie <pierre.labas...@neuf.fr>
>>>>>> To: BLFS Development List <blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org>
>>>>>> Subject: [blfs-dev] create-service-dir in blfs-booscripts
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In blfs-bootscripts, the Makefile has:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> install-service-pppoe: create-service-dir
>>>>>> install -m ${MODE}
>>>>>> blfs/sysconfig/network-devices/services/pppoe
>>>>>> ${EXTDIR}/sysconfig/network-devices/services
>>>>>> install -d -m ${DIRMODE} ${EXTDIR}/ppp/peers
>>>>>> install -m ${CONFMODE} blfs/ppp/pppoe ${EXTDIR}/ppp/peers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and I cannot find "install-service-pppoe" in the current book.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Shouldn't the bootscripts be updated to take that into account ? That is:
>>>>>> - remove install-service-pppoe: RP-PPPoE has been svn rm'd at r7288...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If anybody is against that, please speak out, I'll do that in a few days.
>>>>> Not so much 'against', but just to note (again) that rp-pppoe is still
>>>>> very useful and reliable, robust software - e.g. for vdsl/fibre; it's
>>>>> certainly still part of 'czos'/'slack-from-scratch' here.
>>>> Personally, I'd like install-service-pppoe to stay as well. Sure, if it
>>>> causes maintainance trouble or confuses people, its more consistent to
>>>> "archive" those lines together with rp-pppoe. But as long it does
>>>> not hurt, its a benefit for people like me who will continue using
>>>> rp-pppoe to get into internet, no matter whether its in the book or not...
>>>>
>>>> Uwe
>>>>
>>> Thanks for your answers. I could leave it as is, but what about installing
>>> services/pppoe to /lib/services instead of
>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services? It seems to me that none of
>>> the boot scripts in init.d reference the latter, and ifup/ifdown have
>>> /lib/services hardcoded.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Not really for me to say - we don't use the b/lfs '/etc/sysconfig' type of
>> setup (as find it far too indirect; & we use ~bsd-style (auto-generated from
>> a simple direct spec)).
>>
>>
>> But as a general point, if (IIUIC) the current practice for 'services/pppoe'
>> is an outlier and out-of-sync with ~everything-else using '/lib/services',
>> and if the latter is a sensible idea, then I guess making pppoe the same
>> would be sensible, so long as there's no big gotchas.
>>
>>
>> But really best of course for '/etc/sysconfig'-style users to decide. I was
>> just meaning to (side-)comment, with initial message, on the mooted further
>> disappearance of rp-pppoe from b/lfs, 's all.
>>
> I think I understand your point. The only thing I can tell is that rp-pppoe
> was removed from the book back in 2008 by A. Patrakov. I haven't tried to
> understand why.
The reason was that none of the editors had a way to test it.
Personally, I think this update should wait until some other change is
needed. It is basically dead code because nothing we have now would use
it and if installed, it wouldn't work with the present bootscripts anyway.
It's OK to update svn, but don't increment blfs-bootscripts-version in
general.ent. That was a new bootscripts tarball won't be generated.
-- Bruce
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