Stefan Esser <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:
se> Am 06.02.2012 03:46, schrieb Hiroki Sato: se> > Yes, I agree that aliasN is fragile and renumbering is annoying. I se> > am using a patch to allow the following syntax for a while: se> > se> > ifconfig_tap0_aliases=" se> > inet6 2001:db8:8888:2::1/64 se> > inet6 2001:db8:9990-9999:3::1/64 se> > inet 10.8.1.1/24 se> > inet 10.8.0.1-10/24 se> > " se> se> I like this, but it does not seem to be compatible with David Teske's se> sysrc script. And even though that script has not been made part of I tried sysrc for a variable with multiple lines, but it looks working. What is the compatibility issue more specifically? se> A general syntax for this purpose is useful, but I'd rather not see se> new-lines used for this purpose. For example, I have used "sort" to se> prepare rc.conf files from different hosts for easy comparison with se> each other. This will be broken, if entries cover more than one line. se> There may be other breakage of that kind. se> se> So please choose a separator character that keeps lines intact ... Hmm, sorting rc.conf does not work in many cases because it can contains shell script statements other than variable definitions. I am using a for loop to define multiple vlan interfaces, for example. If we need a feature for comparison, some kind of normalization to extract variables and their values is needed just like sysrc does. I admit 1-line-for-1-variable would be simple and that is a way we have used and expected and I will not rush into an idea with multiple lines. However, it is also true that enumeration like aliasN, more-or-less caused by the 1-line policy, has caused annoying issues and created similar knobs whose functionality is almost the same as each other. I will try to create another patch to support a separator other than a newline, anyway. -- Hiroki
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