On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 22:59 -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote: > Hey NM team/community, > > I would like to propose that we switch the order of the plugins on > Fedora > (next major release is Fedora 33) to be `plugins=keyfile,ifcfg-rh` so > that > both keyfiles and ifcfg are still supported, but now we default to > writing > out/generating keyfiles when using NM tools. If we are ever going to > get away > from the ifcfg format this is a small step in the right direction. > > Of course there are things to take into consideration, like existing > systems. > I propose that we only have this change take effect on new installs. > On existing > systems (upgrades) we leave the order of the plugins unchanged. Over > time more > users will eventually opt for a new install over an upgrade so we'll > have less > users to ultimately "convert" once it comes time (distant future) to > actually > get rid of the ifcfg plugin. > > What do you think?
Hi, Sounds good. The package could just start installing a file /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/01-setting-plugins.conf. Not sure about the upgrade, vs. new installation. Note that if we set main.plugins=keyfile,ifcfg-rh, then on upgrade old profiles still continue to work. Only new profiles will be written in keyfile format. Possibly we chould just change that completely. In that case, we could not use a conf.d file, but instead change the compile time default. Maybe the conf.d file is preferable, because it's better discoverable. But it's mainly the choice of downstream/Fedora. I think this would require a Changes document ([1]) and discussion on fedora devel. [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/program_management/changes_policy/ Seems the deadline for F33 is in June ([2]) [2] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-33/f-33-all-tasks.html best, Thomas
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