On 2015/03/27 12:23, Peter Hessler wrote: > On 2015 Mar 27 (Fri) at 11:54:16 +0100 (+0100), Henning Brauer wrote: > :* Florian Obser <flor...@openbsd.org> [2015-03-26 18:36]: > :> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 05:46:12PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > :> > * Mike Belopuhov <m...@belopuhov.com> [2015-03-26 14:36]: > :> > > however I agree that if we do this for ipv6 we should do it for ipv4 > as well > :> > > but then do we care about tons of stuff out there parsing ifconfig > output? > :> > that's the prime question. I would love to move to CIDR notation - are > :> > we breaking people's scripts with that? The inet side has been the same > :> > for, what, decades? > :> Of course this breaks stuff :) > : > :uh, now that you mention it, I didn't chose a very obvious way to ask > :the question - of course the ifconfig output change breaks scripts > :parsing ifconfig output, the real question being: how common are > :scripts doing that? > : > > I am happy to break scripts, when people aren't using CIDR ;)
It'll need an accompanying change to Ansible's fact gatherer. Facter seems ok with it though.
