Michael Tautschnig wrote: >> Hi Luk, >> >> On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Note that we want to get rid of net-tools using packages. I'll look into >>> a patch that uses iproute instead if that's ok? >> Noted & cool. (And what Michael said.) >> >> Still atm fai is seriously buggy in that depends regard, so unless you have >> a >> patch ready RSN, I would like to file a bug and/or add those depends to >> net-tools now, so that this gets fixed and not forgotten. >> > > Seconded.
Right, seems to be the best option as there are already some glitches. >> That said, I dont see too much point in that work. You'll need to provide >> those wrappers _anyway_. As Ted noted on -devel there are many many scripts >> using them. The wrappers are only meant to be included for user scripts for one more release. >> So maybe rather invest your time now in writing that wrapper? ;-) Of course, >> you could see fixing fai as an exercise on the way :-) >> > > Of course those wrappers must be written, but why use the wrappers if we can > use > the real ones :-) I don't think it's too much of a hassle fixing FAI in this > regard, so I still think it is worthwhile. The wrappers will apparently either depend on packages like ipcalc and similar or will get quite complex. Cheers Luk
