On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20 August 2017 at 01:14, Ryan Harper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > AFAICT, the dependency on ifenslave is from the ifupdown hooks provided > > (none of which execute /sbin/ifenslave). > > I wouldn't drop the ifupdown dependency on ifenslave unless you moved the > > ifdown scripts somewhere else. > > > > Certainly in Artful, if one does not have ifupdown, the package > ifenslave is > > not going to provide any benefit, however if someone installs ifenslave; > I > > feel that it should also depend on ifupdown as the scripts are where the > > integration happen. > > > > Do you think there is a use-case for the ifenslave package without > ifupdown? > > > > ifenslave has two portions: the ifupdown integration & /sbin/ifenslave. > /sbin/ifenslave is usesable by itself > if-up down hooks enhance ifupdown, but are themselves inert > > In this sence ifenslave does not depend on ifupdown, but enhances it. > And instead of ifenslave depending on ifupdown, maybe in the new world > order ifupdown should recommend ifenslave. > > or since the hooks do not depend on ifenslave they should simply be > moved into the ifupdown package. This would simply things, no? > I'd fully support this since the scripts do not make use of the binary provided in the ifenslave package. If that transition happens, I think it makes sense to no longer depend on ifenslave in any way in the ifupdown package. > > > > Ryan Harper > > > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Can we drop ifenslave? > >> > >> It's functionality is superseeded by iproute2 as far as I understand > >> and the ifupdown integration is no longer as relevant, as we are about > >> to default netplan & networkd. > >> > >> At least, is it ok to drop the ifupdwon dependency from ifenslave? > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> > >> Dimitri. > >> > >> -- > >> ubuntu-server mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > >> More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Dimitri. >
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