2009/2/16 James Rayner <iphitus@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi > > The release beta cycle wasn't working well for netcfg. Small changes, > bugs and many FR's got held up far too long while other work happened. > To try and help get netcfg development going smoothly again I've > uploaded some netcfg git PKGBUILDs to the AUR to use instead of -beta > releases. > > This way I can make those small changes, push it to git, and it can be > tested immediately, while larger things can be safely done in another > branch locally. When it's ready, rc's will be released. > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23953 > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23954 > > There's some fairly substantial changes in this release. > - Moving from net-tools to iproute > - iproute is the way forward. net-tools is long unmaintained, nor > as capable. > - Moving from wireless_tools to pure wpa_supplicant > - More reliable, less quirks required. Hopefully more stable. > - As part of this, wireless moves into netcfg-wireless (dependency issues) > > Both of these require config changes. Once they're both stabilised I > can release 2.2.x to give people time to migrate, and eventually 2.5 > which will use them by default. There are example configs included. > > More details on the wiki: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles_development > > The wpa_supplicant move needs a significant amount of testing. I > havn't tested WEP (testing hardware is gone), and net-auto may not > work presently. WPA and custom WPA configs work in my testing. > > If there's any criticisms or comments about the way this is going, the > code, netcfg, etc, please let me know. I'd like to make 2.2 a good > release and I think these changes are important. I'm hoping they'll > make netcfg simpler and more reliable. It's a good idea. I'm installing them to do some test. -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
