The following used to be provided by openrc into /etc/conf.d/net: # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* # scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration, # please review /usr/share/doc/openrc*/net.example* and save your configuration # in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!). ..but since this has been dropped from openrc, netifrc should provide it instead. An entry in ${filesdir} is simple enough to fix for netifrc-0.1 , but I don't know if this is something that should be included in the git repo directly for future versions?
Not providing it in the /etc/conf.d/net location was a decision I made, because it would trigger config_protect and there have been issues in the past with users nuking their network config, similar to why we don't trigger config_protect for files like /etc/fstab. We could provide it again, but I am a bit cautious about triggering config_protect on this file. Thoughts? William
There is a README in the /usr/share/doc/netifrc* directory that tells you how to set up your /etc/conf.d/net. Since that is in place, do you still feel that we should provide the stub in /etc/conf.d/net?
Nope. Rationale suffices. A reminder of this in a one-time postinst() message would be good though. For robbat2 - as discussed on #gentoo-dev: --- netifrc-0.1.ebuild 14 Aug 2013 06:37:32 -0000 1.1 +++ netifrc-0.1.ebuild 14 Aug 2013 19:51:31 -0000 @@ -50,3 +50,12 @@ src_install() { emake ${MAKE_ARGS} DESTDIR="${D}" install } + +pkg_postinst() { + if [[ ! -e "${EROOT}"etc/conf.d/net && -z $REPLACING_VERSIONS ]]; then + elog "The network configuration scripts will use dhcp by + elog "default to set up your interfaces." + elog "If you need to set up something more complete, see" + elog "${EROOT}usr/share/doc/${P}/README" + fi +} ..plus I think the README should probably be made a bit more verbose: This package provides a system of modules to manage and configure network interfaces via individual per-interface scripts in /etc/init.d. Provided is the parent script "/etc/init.d/net.lo", which should be symlinked to create additional scripts for each interface to be configured: ln -s /etc/init.d/net.{lo,eth0} Configuration is handled in "/etc/conf.d/net". A default (empty or missing) /etc/conf.d/net automatically uses DHCP to configure any network interfaces started by these scripts. To create a more complete configuration, please review net.example* in this directory and save your configuration in /etc/conf.d/net.
The git portion is in, but we need to keep this open for when we bump the ebuild still. axs: Can you please put it in the 9999 version of the ebuild (if it doesn't exist, please create).
This has been present for years.
