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Hi, this proposition is mainly for Will. Currently we create missing default ifcfg files (i.e. file of devices not activated in dracut or configured by kickstart) in anaconda: commit e1c287f31dcec4c661272f852e14f5d6925f92d2 Author: Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 21 20:02:46 2012 -0400 Create default ifcfg-* for each interface (#804504, #804716) Loader used to create a default ifcfg-* file for each unused network interface, containing DEVICE, HWADDR, UUID, BOOTPROTO=dhcp, etc. Network.update() populated self.netdevices by reading those files, *skipping any interface that lacked that file*, which caused the vnc traceback in bug #804504. And without BOOTPROTO=dhcp, "ifup $dev" didn't work post-install, which caused #804716. (Personally I think "ifup" should fall back to the same defaults as NetworkManager rather than making us write the defaults to a file, but we'll save that for later.) This has a problem that NetworkManager activates default connections for devices lacking ifcfg file which differs from behaviour in rhel6 and I think we don't want to start to do this. Perhaps we could run anaconda pre-pivot hook (post pre-pivot/85write-ifcfg.sh) that would take care of missing ifcfg files. What do you think? Should I try to come up with an anaconda dracut patch? Also I'd like to bring back functionality of --activate option, but activation of additional devices could be done in anaconda kickstart processing, even though doing that in dracut might be as simple as writing _ONBOOT_=yes by dracut/ks to ifcfg file. Radek |
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