Re: [Devil-linux-develop] two old feature requests

[Roland P. <pa...@ta...>]

On Sunday 21 March 2004 00:46, Bruce Smith wrote:
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>
> Personally I'd leave it.  I'd rather search for something inside a big
> config file, instead of trying to find the file containing the info.
> And I don't think it's too cluttered yet, by any means.
>
> If someone does move it, the setup program AND the
> upgrade-to-a-new-release process will need to be changed.

Yes, that was holding me back too ( lazy as I am ;-)

> > > I'd suggest moving START_FOO and the variables DAEMON, PARAMETERS, ...
> > > from the /etc/init.d/ scripts into /etc/sysconfig/foo . Would make it
> > > look more tidy perhaps ;-)
> >
> > I wouldn't do this, I think we should leave it in the init scripts.
>
> Yeah, leave them.
>
> > > [ 564057 ] ifconfig -> ip
> > > switch from the ifconfig command in the network script
> > >  to the ip command.
> > >
> > > All occasion of ifconfig in /etc/init.d/network can be easily changed
> > > to ip, except for the setting of the hardware mac address. ip can't do
> > > this, I am not even aware of any program except ifconfig that can do
> > > this... comments?
> >
> > I'm not sure if we really should do this changes (yeah I know I
> > suggested it... ;-) ).
> > Any opinions about it?
>
> I don't see a need for a change.
I was just asking because I saw them in the list. There are not many feature 
requests which are not "add this program". Are there any 'real' features 
missing to be in the next release? Or will 1.2.0 just come out when Heiko is 
tired of typing 1.1.9-rc5-pre7 ? ;-)
Roland
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