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

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >>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.

OK, I'm with you now.  (it's early here :)

Although I'm not sure how to handle that.  If I simply "s/:/|/g", 
won't it will break the valid IPv6 routes?  (and IP aliases?)

 - BS