On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:11:57PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:46:38PM -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote: > > Which brings me to the question, does there exist a parser/generator for > > the /etc/conf.d/net.* files? If not, would Gentoo like me to contribute > > my work on the generator, and would one of you point me to the parser? > > The files in /etc/conf.d are just posix shell code; they are sourced in > /lib*/rc/runscript.sh. The actions taken depend on the service script > that reads the files. > > I'll let the netifrc maintainers speak up wrt whether they would be > interested in a generator for /etc/conf.d/net.*. I'm certainly interested in a generator for the simple versions, but it's going to remain shell code, because there are some really complex configs out there, that sanely use variables to abstract & reduce complexity.
As such, a parser should probably just source it, and be prepared to say 'this is too complex, do it yourself'. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
