Le 29/01/2014 22:18, akhiezer a écrit :
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:03:57 +0100
>> From: Pierre Labastie <[email protected]>
>> To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] create-service-dir in blfs-booscripts
>>
>> Le 29/01/2014 19:18, [email protected] a écrit :
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, akhiezer wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:32:15 +0100
>>>>> From: Pierre Labastie <[email protected]>
>>>>> To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: [blfs-dev] create-service-dir in blfs-booscripts
>>>>>
>>>>> In blfs-bootscripts, the Makefile has:
>>>>>
>>>>> install-service-pppoe: create-service-dir
>>>>>          install -m ${MODE} blfs/sysconfig/network-devices/services/pppoe
>>>>> ${EXTDIR}/sysconfig/network-devices/services
>>>>>          install -d -m ${DIRMODE} ${EXTDIR}/ppp/peers
>>>>>          install -m ${CONFMODE} blfs/ppp/pppoe ${EXTDIR}/ppp/peers
>>>>>
>>>>> and I cannot find "install-service-pppoe" in the current book.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shouldn't the bootscripts be updated to take that into account ? That is:
>>>>> - remove install-service-pppoe: RP-PPPoE has been svn rm'd at r7288...
>>>>>
>>>>> If anybody is against that, please speak out, I'll do that in a few days.
>>>> Not so much 'against', but just to note (again) that rp-pppoe is still 
>>>> very useful and reliable, robust software - e.g. for vdsl/fibre; it's 
>>>> certainly still part of 'czos'/'slack-from-scratch' here.
>>> Personally, I'd like install-service-pppoe to stay as well. Sure, if it 
>>> causes maintainance trouble or confuses people, its more consistent to 
>>> "archive" those lines together with rp-pppoe. But as long it does 
>>> not hurt, its a benefit for people like me who will continue using 
>>> rp-pppoe to get into internet, no matter whether its in the book or not...
>>>
>>> Uwe
>>>
>> Thanks for your answers. I could leave it as is, but what about installing
>> services/pppoe to /lib/services instead of
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services? It seems to me that none of
>> the boot scripts in init.d reference the latter, and ifup/ifdown have
>> /lib/services hardcoded.
>>
> 
> 
> Not really for me to say - we don't use the b/lfs '/etc/sysconfig' type of 
> setup (as find it far too indirect; & we use ~bsd-style (auto-generated from 
> a simple direct spec)).
> 
> 
> But as a general point, if (IIUIC) the current practice for 'services/pppoe' 
> is an outlier and out-of-sync with ~everything-else using '/lib/services', 
> and if the latter is a sensible idea, then I guess making pppoe the same 
> would be sensible, so long as there's no big gotchas.
> 
> 
> But really best of course for '/etc/sysconfig'-style users to decide. I was 
> just meaning to (side-)comment, with initial message, on the mooted further 
> disappearance of rp-pppoe from b/lfs, 's all.
> 
I think I understand your point. The only thing I can tell is that rp-pppoe
was removed from the book back in 2008 by A. Patrakov. I haven't tried to
understand why.

Pierre




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