On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Michel Lind just prompted me to notice that the 'network' service > appears to have been removed from initscripts in Fedora 40+. This > change seems to have landed in February without any fanfare - > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/initscripts/c/414789841de9247310ebfd37cd043b75963f7cac?branch=rawhide > . There is no Change for it, AFAICS. > > This does not appear to be driven by upstream removing it, because the > commit apparently specifically adds 'NO_NETWORK_SCRIPTS=true' to remove > it from the build. Presumably without that, it would still be built. > > I'm a bit worried about this arriving unannounced and apparently mostly > unnoticed. There *are* still reasons to use the network service; I > still use it on the openQA worker hosts, for instance, because there is > integration between openvswitch and the legacy network service, but no > integration between openvswitch and NetworkManager. I also use an ifup- > pre-local script to pre-create tap devices; NetworkManager apparently > does not support this natively. There's a suggested workaround at > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6900331 , which is helpful, but > still, it's a significant change if you're using that mechanism. > > As a user of this service, I would've expected more of a heads-up that > it was going away; if I hadn't happened to catch Michel's message I > might have upgraded openQA staging to F40 immediately on release (as I > usually do) and been rather surprised that the network setup stopped > working. I'm sure I will find a way to re-engineer this rather > complicated network setup without network.service, but a bit more of a > heads up would have been nice. > > Should this have been a Change? How worried are we about it going out > in Fedora 40 without having been through the Change process? This should have been an announced Change. This is a significant change with wide impact. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
