Re: [Devil-linux-develop] possible change in IPv4 routing configuration syntax

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote on 11.02.2004 14:32 MET:
> 
>>You might have read that Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale is working on IPv6 support 
>>for DL. But this implies that he has to modify the syntax for the routing 
>>entries in /etc/sysconfig/nic/ifcfg-ethX and replace the : with a | as the 
>>: is used in IPv6 addresses.
>>
>>Now to have consistent syntax in the routing syntax - it makes the 
>>documentation much less confusing to the users and saves us a lot of 
>>possible troubles - I want to change the syntax for IPv4 too when 
>>integrating Arnauds changes for IPv6.
>>
>>Not much fuzz about that _but_ the crux is that it would introduce troubles 
>>during upgrading. So could you possible prepare the update script to take 
>>this into account, but not checking in those changes till I've got the 
>>contributions of Arnaud applied?
> 
> 
> The upgrade script doesn't look inside those files, it only compares
> them to see if they are different.  Your changes shouldn't cause any
> problems with the current upgrade script.

I meant, could you please add the transformation from old to new format to 
the update script, as just copying the ifcfg-XXXX files will break the 
system when I change the syntax for adding routes.

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
URL: http://www.lsl.at/                         Email: fl...@fl...
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