[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Wed Aug 24 10:12:42 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 24 août 2011 à 09:07 +0200, Buchan Milne a écrit :
+> On Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:15:44 Michael Scherer wrote:
+> > Le mardi 23 août 2011 à 15:28 +0200, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> > > What's more gaining 20s on a server when the IBM uefi/firmware take
+> > > *minutes* to setup the machine is worthless.
+> > > On the server side, we still manage RHEL networking through old style
+> > > ifcfg* config files
+> > 
+> > Some people do actually use vms, where boot speed could be important if
+> > created on demand ( and where the reactivity would warrant something
+> > more than "shell script", and where a better API to get interface
+> > information wuld be nice ).
+> 
+> We have netcf in the distribution ...
+
+look at who imported it :)
+
+> https://fedorahosted.org/netcf
+> 
+> (required for network configuration from virt-manager).
+
+We also do have augeas, that could help on the same type of problem. 
+
+But none of them react to interface change and while libvirt (for
+example ) can use netcf, there is still cases where it do /proc parsing
+with all the fragility and code duplication it implies ( like in
+networkCheckRouteCollision )
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+