Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-12 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/09/12 06:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: I can agree that a server would probably want a static configuration, but all work stations do not use gnome, kde, etc.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-12 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 12-09-2012 a las 08:44 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/09/12 06:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: I can agree that a server would probably want a static

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-11 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/09/12 04:05 PM, David Leverton wrote: 4) dhcpcd: not sure when it was introduced, but current dhcpcd can detect when the link goes up and down, and request/renew its lease when it comes up. The only wrinkle that I can see here is that,

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-11 Thread Luca Barbato
On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-11 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:01 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-11 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:43:08PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:01 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: In

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: I can agree that a server would probably want a static configuration, but all work stations do not use gnome, kde, etc. Most do not run unix, but at work I can't think of any servers that are using static

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-10 Thread David Leverton
On 10 September 2012 15:48, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: All, I have a regression in OpenRc wrt netplugd [1]. In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also Debian has declared netplugd to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-10 Thread Olivier Crête
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also Debian has declared netplugd to be obsolete in favor of ifplugd. Does anyone have any thoughts about whether

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also Debian has declared netplugd to be obsolete

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-10 Thread Christopher Head
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:48:32 -0500 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts about whether we should keep OpenRC support for one or both of these? As a user… yes? I use a laptop, so I don’t much care which one is maintained but I’d be quite annoyed if both went

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

2012-09-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:47:48PM -0700, Christopher Head wrote: As a user… yes? I use a laptop, so I don’t much care which one is maintained but I’d be quite annoyed if both went away (unless there’s some other dæmon that does the same job that I’ve never heard of). I am thinking that we