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.
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