Laine Stump wrote: > On 01/06/2011 02:03 PM, Zdenek Styblik wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello, >> >> On 01/05/2011 04:43 PM, Laine Stump wrote: >> >>> On 01/05/2011 06:12 AM, Zdenek Styblik wrote: >>> >>> Zdenek - I'd be very happy to have a Slackware port of netcf, and would >>> be willing to help out getting it in (as long as you'd be willing to >>> help me setup a Slackware guest so I could test your patches ;-) There >>> have been 4 other people who started netcf ports (debian, arch linux, >>> suse, and (believe it or not, MS Windows)), but so far none has followed >>> through to actually pushing something into the main netcf git. >>> >>> >> just wait a second; did you actually say "patches"? :) What is the >> original platform/distro of NetCF? >> > > It was originally developed for Fedora and RHEL (RHEL5.x up to a > point, but now only RHEL6 support is up-to-date due to libnl version > incompatibilities on 5.x). > > Because the network config files differ for different distros, there > are a couple of files that need to be different for each (or in some > cases where two distros are very close, maybe they can share the same > source files, with a few #ifdefs). The files defining the API, and > implementing the toplevel functions of the API should be common to all > platforms, and there is also a file of utility functions that should > be useful on all Linux platforms (but not on Windows). > > As far as I know, the SuSE port was actually complete at one time, and > was included in a released product (not sure what the product is), It hasn't been included in a product yet, but might be in upcoming openSUSE 11.4. > but I don't know where the source is (aside from earlier versions > posted to the list and available in the archives), It currently resides in network:utilities project in openSUSE Build Service https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=netcf&project=network%3Autilities > and the developers haven't had the resources available to clean it up > and submit it back to the upstream project. My only involvement was enabling netcf support in libvirt, so I can't say much about the work or any progress to upstream it. I've cc'd Patrick - he was involved and perhaps could provide an update. Regards, Jim -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list