[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 23 août 2011 à 09:30 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 'Twas brillig, and Michael scherer at 22/08/11 13:14 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 08:44:01AM -0300, Balcaen John wrote:
> >> Le Monday 22 August 2011 12:57:23 Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
> >>> On 22/08/2011 11:57, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >>>> I also have it on good authority that many of the features lacking
> >>>> in NetworkManager (such as bridging configuration) will be
> >>>> available in the not too distant future and many other more
> >>>> advanced networking features such as fast-start DHCP,
> >>>> per-interface DNS, 4-8's DNS fallback and several other nice
> >>>> features will ultimately be possible too.
> >>> While I don't care about configuration wizards, I do about
> >>> initscripts. How are you supposed to configure a server in some
> >>> automated manner without plain-old configuration files ?
> >> If i'm not wrong you can still drop plain text files in 
> >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
> > 
> > Provided you want to do nothing fancy like bridge, vlan and 
> > others stuff that are used by sysadmins. 
> 
> As I said in my initial email, but was not clear. All of these things
> will be supported in a much nicer way in the near future.

But so far, this is not supported. And since we have said we do not
remove non systemd from Mageia 2
( https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006701.html ) ,
I think we cannot take systemd for granted before mageia 3. 

And precisely, because we are not gonna keep only systemd for mageia 2,
we cannot depreciate network script.

> But yes, Fedora will switch and we can follow, but it would be nice to
> be at the fore front here if possible.

Would we have too much ressources, maybe. But so far, there is already
enough work on http://check.mageia.org/ to keep people busy, and I do
not really see the need to add more breakage and shiny stuff when we are
far from being able to take care of what we already have.


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Michael Scherer