On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:54 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chuck Anderson <c...@wpi.edu> said: > > NM can use old style /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*. Can't > > you just write those out from your %post section? Or, if you want all > > the NM features like WPA wireless config, you can use the keyfile > > plugin to write NM ini-style key-value files. Either way, those are > > text files that are easily handled from shell scripts. > > This is rather under-documented I discovered last night. There is a > document that describes the keyfile plugin config, but it doesn't appear > to be on the NM website, and it isn't included in any Fedora RPM as far > as I found. I opened BZ 627782 about this; the spec file takes steps to > keep the timestamps on docs (for multilib), but then only includes a > single file (the library API) in an RPM. > > The ifcfg-rh plugin doesn't appear to have any documentation at all > (from what I understand, it doesn't support all the same things in > network-scripts that ifup/etc. do, and it adds some things of its own > for WPA and the like).
The ifcfg-rh plugin attempts to interpret ifcfg files just like ifup/ifdown do. These limitations and extensions should be documented better. But in the end, you want better documentation for the ifcfg file format as defined by Red Hat/Fedora (SUSE's is slightly different). Most of that has been documented since the beginning of time in places like: ifup-ipv6 ifup-wireless man ifup /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt But of course some of that is out of date, and NM implements WPA and 802.1x support that the system initscripts don't. Better documentation all around? Dan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
