also sprach Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> [2009.11.04.0230 +0100]: > Since to me the point of this exercise is so that I can usefully > put ipcfg into the archive, and since ipcfg does not actually > support /etc/network/interfaces, I'd say that should not be part > of the interface.
Hehe, but interface definitions usually describe the status quo from the users' perspective, not the state of development of a new tool aiming interface compatibility. Gosh, I wish the ISO 9000 specs worked that way! ;) It *is* questionable how mucn /e/n/i is part of the interface though. > I do have code to support /etc/network/if-*.d/*, though I consider > that a temporary hack so that the code would be useful sooner > rather than later. It also doesn't work yet ;-) Okay. I definitely think the hooks are part of the interface that we need to support in any network configuration tool. > > Especially the hooks are integral to a lot of other packages that > > depend on ifupdown. I'd say that's part of any Debian > > "network-config-tool" interface. > > Basically, the interface that I'd like to see is "tool that can bring up > a given interface as configured by the user". E.g., if ifplugd calls > "ifup eth0", it should not care which implementation of ifup is being > called to actually bring the interface up. Yes. But there are tools that will call it with --verbose, or with --all. I think we agree anyway. > Depends: (...), ifupdown (>= 0.6.8+nmu3) | network-config-tool, (...) > > because this is a matter of "we need at least this version of ifupdown > to work properly" rather than "we absolutely need ifupdown"; after all, > it's ifupdown or ipcfg that calls dhclient, not the other way around. That does seem weird and should not be needed, indeed. Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "i love deadlines. i like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- douglas adams
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