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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Roland Pabel wrote:
> On Sunday 21 March 2004 00:46, Bruce Smith wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>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 ? ;-)

Actually we didn't set a limit to the numbers, so we probably could go 
up to 1.1.999999-rc999 ;-)

I don't know what you guys think, but I wanted to wait another 2-3 
months before I approach 1.2. Of course if I have to keep patching the 
older kernel I vote for an earlier release.

Heiko