On 2011/6/10 James Rayner <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > netcfg has an option that runs ip/iproute with any custom option > (routes, IPs anything), the option is "IPCFG". It may be seen in the > example ethernet-iproute[1]. > > IFCFG is the obscure command you mention, unfortunately it's not too > obscure, as this was how static IPs were set before iproute > configuration was added. It was retained for backwards compatibility. > > The only reason net-tools was still a requirement was setting hostname. > A change similar to initscripts [2] at line 121 of > src/connections/ethernet [3] would suffice. > > After that it ought to be safe to make net-tools an optional dependency. > Systems already using net-tools will keep functioning, and a notice > could be placed in code that handles IFCFG to advise those users to > migrate to the iproute configuration. > I will add some warning about IFCFG. I made the needed change for hostname and the next release will set net-tools to be optional. I will need testers for the various patches I merged from the bug tracker, notably IPv6. Any comments on the suggested implementation are welcome. -- Rémy.
