Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/ppp/(ip-up.d,ip-down.d} directories

[Josh Saddler]

Alin Năstac wrote:
> A gentoo user requested in bug 190143 [1] to change the way pppd deals
> with interface up/down events. He requested to break current
> ip-up/ip-down functionality into different scripts contained in
> /etc/ppp/(ip-up.d,ip-down.d}.
> 
> What do you think about? Is it worth it?
> 
> Personally I think it is a good idea, but I have reserves when it comes
> to user defined {ip-up,ip-down}.local scripts. IMO the best way to solve
> this is to add this code to pkg_postinst():
>     if [ -f "${ROOT}"etc/ppp/ip-up.local ]; then
>       mv "${ROOT}"etc/ppp/ip-up.local "${ROOT}"etc/ppp/ip-up.d/99-local
>     fi
> 
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190143

If anything does actually change, be sure to open a docs-team bug with
a patch or list of changes against what the networking handbook(s)
currently have for PPP. It'll need to be documented all over again.

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