On 05/09/2011 10:33 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote:
>>
>> You know what? I think we are over thinking this. How about a state
>> file? Upon successful initialization of an interface, copy the config
>> file to a subdir of /run/network. The ifdown script sources the
>> running copy if it exists and removes it on successful stop of the
>> interface, or ip down interface if it does not exist and exits 0.
> Ooo, I like that idea. :-)
>
> Now, to get time to hack it together... :-(
>
I'm just about done with the DESTDIR POC (still need to add instructions
to account for lib64 -> lib since I did this on multilib first) but that
can use some time to mature a bit anyway, so should have time on Wed if
one of y'all don't get there first.
The current task list is as follows (for which I believe we have
consensus from those who have chimed in so far):
* Most important, pull as much as possible of the items below from
LightCube OS's files to ease merging and keep the diffs to a minimum so
that they are easily shared across distributions.
* Move ifup and ifdown scripts to /sbin.
* Move network service scripts to /lib/services (there was one
minor objection here, should that be /lib/network-services or
/lib/network? I don't really have any preference here, /lib/services is
fine by me).
* Move network configuration files to /etc/network.
* Move network (hostname value) and clock config into
/etc/default/rc.site (default to UTC?)
* Use /etc/default for rc configuration files (remaining items in
/etc/sysconfig currently).
And here is a summary of remaining items that have not come to consensus
or haven't been brought up previously in this thread:
* Add initd-tools to book - This is required for the new scripts.
Jeremy what is the status on this in LightCube OS? I remember a few
months ago about you possibly taking over maintenance of them, adding a
service binary/script and such? At last check, Dan did not have them in
an RCS, which is not an issue for now, just curious about the future of
the tools. The tarball and homepage are available in Dan's home
directory on freedesktop.org if we need for the book. Dan?
* Add configurable function to handle script errors in place of
'read Enter'. Of course, the option exists to kill that completely, but
it puts the error in plain sight for desktop users.
* ifup - copy configuration file from /etc/network/$int/$file to
/run/network/$int/$file upon successful initialization of the interface.
* ifdown - source configuration files from /run/network/$int/*.
* ifdown - if interface configuration files do not exist, ip addr
flush $int, ip link set $int down, exit 0.
* The three items above are the best I think we can do with it and
should cover > 99% of all cases, the known exceptions being starting the
dhcp client or ppp client manually, and possibly manual configuration of
wireless interfaces (I've never configured wireless in LFS - also what
about VPN tools started manually?). I believe Bryan is already on board
with these changes, Bruce, Jeremy, Zach?
* svn mv BOOK/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3 BOOK/LSB-Bootscripts.
* merge necessary changelog entries and readme from original
bootscripts with LSB-Bootscripts.
* Add a copy of the MIT license file to bootscripts.
* Add needed changes to book rendering for new bootscripts (I have
this done locally).
* I just noticed, need to fix setclock UTC logic to use case as in
all others for 0|y*|Y*|t*|T*,1|n*|N*|f*|F*,* exit 2 (invalid argument).
* Remove selective boot - personally I'd rather keep that in place
simply because it was requested so many times in the past, but possibly
disable the functionality by default?
* Do something with the tmpfs used for the boot log...in fact, we
could probably setup the /run mount point directly in the rc script and
remove it from mountvirtfs.
Hope I didn't miss anything, but I've got to go.
-- DJ Lucas
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