Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:14:14 -0500 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > >> Welcome to baselayout-ng > > > > please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 > > -mike > > Mike how about... yabl.. or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > In the current code I'm running it's only the network stuff that uses > arrays. If you're thinking about /sbin/functions.sh, well that can stay > as bash as it's not used by baselayout anymore. some init.d scripts use arrays as well -mike pgpim

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:44:20PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > > Welcome to baselayout-ng > > please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 Especially as what will you call the replacement for baselayout-ng? baselayout-ng-ng?

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Goldstein
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: >> Welcome to baselayout-ng > > please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 > -mike Mike how about... yabl.. or ya-baselayout.. Yet Another Baselayout Yet Another Wonderful Naming Convention... -- Do

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Goldstein
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:11:39 + Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Not being rude or anything, but what does it take to get this into | peoples mindlessly thick skulls? | | THE CONFIG FILE HAS TO BE PARSEABLE BY ANY SHELL | | or | | EVERY SHELL HAS TO BE PATCHED

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > Welcome to baselayout-ng please god do not use this name ... just call it baselayout-2 -mike pgptSXGWYH9hT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Ned Ludd
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:16 +, Roy Marples wrote: > OK, so everyone wants to keep their conf.d/net in bash. Fine by me. > > Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require > bash. Good. Maybe now we can get rid of the pretty much non functional baselayout-lite which basi

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Raúl Porcel
Roy Marples wrote: > OK, so everyone wants to keep their conf.d/net in bash. Fine by me. > > Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require > bash. > > Now that's out of the way, let's discuss configuration :) > > We still need something that is "array like" for want of a bet

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:11:39 + Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THE CONFIG FILE HAS TO BE PARSEABLE BY ANY SHELL Well, to be precise, it has to be parse-able by whatever runscript (-> runscript.sh) uses to source it. Currently that's hard-wired to /bin/bash; you're suggesting it be ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Francesco Riosa
Roy Marples ha scritto: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:47:33 -0500 Patrick McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? No. baselayout will get all the nice features that baselayout-ng will get, except t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:11:39 + Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Not being rude or anything, but what does it take to get this into | peoples mindlessly thick skulls? | | THE CONFIG FILE HAS TO BE PARSEABLE BY ANY SHELL | | or | | EVERY SHELL HAS TO BE PATCHED TO UNDERSTAND BASH ARRAYS

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:47:33 -0500 Patrick McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So this means that you are planning to stop development of the > current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? No. baselayout will get all the nice features that baselayout-ng will get, except that it will force bash t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Francesco Riosa
Patrick McLean ha scritto: Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? We still need something that is "array like" for want of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Patrick McLean
Roy Marples wrote: Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. So this means that you are planning to stop development of the current baselayout in favor of baselayout-ng? We still need something that is "array like" for want of a better phrase, so how about

[gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Marples
OK, so everyone wants to keep their conf.d/net in bash. Fine by me. Welcome to baselayout-ng which will be a virtual and will not require bash. Now that's out of the way, let's discuss configuration :) We still need something that is "array like" for want of a better phrase, so how about delimit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-07 Thread Francesco Riosa
Roy Marples ha scritto: Hi List As some of you may be aware, I've started work on baselayout-2 which is basically re-tooling it in C. One of the side goals is to eliminate the need for using bash. You'll be pleased to know that it's working well enough to boot Gentoo/FreeBSD. [...] what about

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT: arping being called from init.d/net.*

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 20:47:03 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maillog: 07/02/2007-08:50:03(+0100): Jakub Moc types > > > > To be honest, I hate the idea of rewriting the network config; being > > able to specify things like > > > > config_eth0=( "10.1.1.{1..10}/24 brd +" ) > >

[gentoo-dev] OT: arping being called from init.d/net.*

2007-02-07 Thread Georgi Georgiev
maillog: 07/02/2007-08:50:03(+0100): Jakub Moc types > > To be honest, I hate the idea of rewriting the network config; being > able to specify things like > > config_eth0=( "10.1.1.{1..10}/24 brd +" ) The above reminds me how the current init scripts first checks if an address already exists on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 01:03:56 -0800 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:09:11PM +, Roy Marples wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:14:49 + > > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why? What's wrong with requiring a shell that supports various >

Re: [gentoo-dev] afflib licence (BSD4 like)

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:50:10 +1100 Daniel Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was looking at http://www.afflib.org/LICENSE.txt and was wondering if > it really had any Gentoo implications with adding it as a package. > > I asked a few questions. Does the following seem reasonable? Just one comment

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:09:11PM +, Roy Marples wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:14:49 + > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? What's wrong with requiring a shell that supports various > > features beyond what POSIX specifies? Granted, choice of shell is > > good, but not if

[gentoo-dev] afflib licence (BSD4 like)

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Black
Was looking at http://www.afflib.org/LICENSE.txt and was wondering if it really had any Gentoo implications with adding it as a package. I asked a few questions. Does the following seem reasonable? [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123175 -- Forwarded Message -- Sub

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Marples
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:27:46 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > > No, I'm just interesting in killing bash array requirements in the > > network config file. > > you need to kill them everywhere then ... network config isnt the > onl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-07 Thread Alin Năstac
Roy Marples wrote: > This email is about network configuration. Before I joined Gentoo, > network configuration was done in bash arrays like so (note, that the > variable name was changed in baselayout-1.11) > > ifconfig_eth0=( > "10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" > "10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-07 Thread Luca Barbato
Roy Marples wrote: > Hi List > > As some of you may be aware, I've started work on baselayout-2 which is > basically re-tooling it in C. One of the side goals is to eliminate the > need for using bash. You'll be pleased to know that it's working well > enough to boot Gentoo/FreeBSD. Hm... > So,