Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-10 Thread Roy Marples
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:03:32 -0700 Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) maintain the existing baselayout and don't change things at all. Right, that's baselayout-1 2) start a new package called fastlayout and do whatever you wanna do with it. Be as innovative as you want to be with it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: We still need something that is array like for want of a better phrase, so how about delimiting using ; like so config_eth0=10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0; 10.1.1.2/24 if you want to allow one liners, then i dont see

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-09 Thread Roy Marples
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:07:50 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: Another idea; have baselayout install different versions of init.d/conf.d and default shell for runscript depending on USE flags that'll just lead to horrible bit

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 02:10 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: He's not screwing up anything. He's making changes he wishes as the author and maintainer of the package. If someone doesn't like it, they can fork it and maintain their own

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 09 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 02:10 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: that really isnt a valid stance to take with the package in question ... by this logic, i can turn around and screw with the toolchain and if no one likes what i'm doing, then that's

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-09 Thread Daniel Robbins
On 2/9/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forking the package is retarded. maintain backward compability and there's no reason to fork it. baselayout isnt Roy's package, it isnt my package, it isnt anyone's. it belongs to Gentoo as a whole which means changes to it affect everyone in

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
Daniel Robbins schrieb: Structured this way, fastlayout is certainly a project that sounds like a great idea, and would I enjoy working on in some capacity - I have some ideas about this. I also think it would be a good idea to check out what other distributions are doing in this area.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:58:20 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A far better justification than you've given currently. | | How about hacking on open source is done so that people can scratch | an itch. No developer has to be a slave to the demands of others if | it doesn't scratch

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:44:20PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 Especially as what will you call the replacement for baselayout-ng?

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 Especially as what will you call the replacement for baselayout-ng? baselayout-ng-ng? What did they call the Star Trek after NG? =) Deep Space Nine, then Voyager, then

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a project that is developed and used by a lot of people. As if we were all gonna die without bash arrays in our config files. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:32:20 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a | project that is developed and used by a lot of people. | | As if we were all gonna die without bash arrays in our config files.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread frilled
Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a project that is developed and used by a lot of people. As if we were all gonna die without bash arrays in our config files. And once again nobody thinks of the user base. Changing configuration file syntax means

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Roy Marples
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:38:04 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:32:20 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a | project that is developed and used by a lot of

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:02:38AM +, Roy Marples wrote: Who said that there would be loss of functionality? I'm just suggesting a new config while supporting the old one. That sounds great, especially for all the slackers unwilling to change their config files. :-) cheers,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 08:18 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:58:20 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A far better justification than you've given currently. | | How about hacking on open source is done so that people can scratch | an itch. No developer has

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:38 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:32:20 +0100 Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a | project that is developed and used by a lot of people. | | As

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 08 February 2007, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: Deep Space Nine, then Voyager, then Enterprise... sounds good to me ;) baselayout-deep-space-nine ;) Portage would hate such versioning scheme ;) I would love it, it would be perfect with the naming convention I'm using for my boxes :) /me

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:28:34 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | He's not screwing up anything. He's making changes he wishes as the | author and maintainer of the package. If someone doesn't like it, | they can fork it and maintain their own package. Isn't that just | wonderful?

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:32:45 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Actually, that's one of the joys of open source. There *doesn't* need | to be *any* justification *whatsoever* for Roy to do anything he | likes. After all, that's how many projects start out. Someone | decides they

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:45:30PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Ooh, an ad hominem! Is that the name of paludis' bug reporting tool? cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org IRC: #gentoo-forums on freenode - email:

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Francesco Riosa
Wernfried Haas ha scritto: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:45:30PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Ooh, an ad hominem! Is that the name of paludis' bug reporting tool? lol, anyway stop this thread, Roy stated that the installed cfg files will be managed via use flags that would satisfy everyone.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Doug Goldstein
frilled wrote: Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a project that is developed and used by a lot of people. As if we were all gonna die without bash arrays in our config files. And once again nobody thinks of the user base. Changing configuration file

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:13:37 +0100 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:45:30PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Ooh, an ad hominem! | | Is that the name of paludis' bug reporting tool? No, that would be trac, as you know fine well.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:20, Doug Goldstein wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:13:37 +0100 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:45:30PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Ooh, an ad hominem! | | Is that the name of paludis' bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Roy Marples
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:26:40 +0100 Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol, anyway stop this thread, Roy stated that the installed cfg files will be managed via use flags that would satisfy everyone. I say maybe a USE flag or something else. May not need one, we'll see. Existing configs

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:20:17 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Do *YOU* have anything useful to contribute to the discussion because | all I've seen is your useless FUD which countless times people have | said is not true. If you bothered to pay attention, you'll note that Roy

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:17:58 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:32:45 -0500 Chris Gianelloni | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Actually, that's one of the joys of open source. There *doesn't* | | need to be *any* justification

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Stephen P. Becker
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:28:52 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:20:17 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Do *YOU* have anything useful to contribute to the discussion because | all I've seen is your useless FUD which countless times people have

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Thomas Rösner
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:20:17 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Do *YOU* have anything useful to contribute to the discussion because | all I've seen is your useless FUD which countless times people have | said is not true. I can count to one. If you

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Josh Saddler
Roy Marples wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:26:40 +0100 Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol, anyway stop this thread, Roy stated that the installed cfg files will be managed via use flags that would satisfy everyone. I say maybe a USE flag or something else. May not need one, we'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Roy Marples
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:06:07 -0800 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next question, then, since I am extremely, exquisitely glad to know that the existing, familiar, comfortable, (etc.) way of doing it will be allowed, how long will that last. That is, will we all be forced to migrate to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 08 February 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:44:20PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 Especially as

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But hey, I understand you like to go around bashing people. Does doing so scratch an itch of yours or something? I guess we all misunderstood. As long everybody won't have additional work (like changing all our systems) I think nobody would complain. If the

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:20:17 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Do *YOU* have anything useful to contribute to the discussion because | all I've seen is your useless FUD which countless times people have | said is not true. If you bothered to pay

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: Another idea; have baselayout install different versions of init.d/conf.d and default shell for runscript depending on USE flags that'll just lead to horrible bit rot and code duplication i would think -mike pgpoE6NHhLauz.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 08 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: He's not screwing up anything. He's making changes he wishes as the author and maintainer of the package. If someone doesn't like it, they can fork it and maintain their own package. Isn't that just wonderful? Seriously, Roy can work on

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: We still need something that is array like for want of a better phrase, so how about delimiting using ; like so config_eth0=10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0; 10.1.1.2/24 if you want to allow one liners, then i dont see any other real option ...

[gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Marples
OK, so everyone wants to keep their conf.d/net in bash. Fine by me. Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. Now that's out of the way, let's discuss configuration :) We still need something that is array like for want of a better phrase, so how about

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Patrick McLean
Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? We still need something that is array like for want of a better phrase, so how about

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Francesco Riosa
Patrick McLean ha scritto: Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? We still need something that is array like for want of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:47:33 -0500 Patrick McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? No. baselayout will get all the nice features that baselayout-ng will get, except that it will force bash to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:11:39 + Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Not being rude or anything, but what does it take to get this into | peoples mindlessly thick skulls? | | THE CONFIG FILE HAS TO BE PARSEABLE BY ANY SHELL | | or | | EVERY SHELL HAS TO BE PATCHED TO UNDERSTAND BASH ARRAYS

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Francesco Riosa
Roy Marples ha scritto: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:47:33 -0500 Patrick McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? No. baselayout will get all the nice features that baselayout-ng will get, except

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:11:39 + Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THE CONFIG FILE HAS TO BE PARSEABLE BY ANY SHELL Well, to be precise, it has to be parse-able by whatever runscript (- runscript.sh) uses to source it. Currently that's hard-wired to /bin/bash; you're suggesting it be

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Raúl Porcel
Roy Marples wrote: OK, so everyone wants to keep their conf.d/net in bash. Fine by me. Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. Now that's out of the way, let's discuss configuration :) We still need something that is array like for want of a better

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Ned Ludd
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:16 +, Roy Marples wrote: OK, so everyone wants to keep their conf.d/net in bash. Fine by me. Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. Good. Maybe now we can get rid of the pretty much non functional baselayout-lite which

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 -mike pgptSXGWYH9hT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:11:39 + Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Not being rude or anything, but what does it take to get this into | peoples mindlessly thick skulls? | | THE CONFIG FILE HAS TO BE PARSEABLE BY ANY SHELL | | or | | EVERY SHELL HAS TO BE PATCHED

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Goldstein
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 -mike Mike how about... yabl.. or ya-baselayout.. Yet Another Baselayout Yet Another Wonderful Naming Convention... /sarcasm --

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:44:20PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 Especially as what will you call the replacement for baselayout-ng? baselayout-ng-ng? :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:14:14 -0500 Doug Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 -mike Mike how about... yabl.. or