Re: [Registry] proper key standards?

[Markus R. <mai...@gm...>]

Am Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2004 04:10 schrieb Michael A. Peters:
> Is there a proposed rfc or other document for proper location of system
> configuration keys?

Yes, its in elektra/doc/standards in the svn reposity.

But dont expect anything in there (just beginning of passwd + TODO). But you 
are greatly welcome to write something for networking.

> For example - I'm trying to elektrify my network scripts etc. (doesn't
> look that hard, I'm running on FC3T3 and rh/fedora do most of that with
> shell scripts).

Good thing, but there is no convert script for that or any doc how the keys 
should look like.

> My internet connection is adsl/pppoe. It uses rp-pppoe to make the
> connection.
> So I'm assuming that the proper place dir for that configuration would
> be
> system/sw/rp-pppoe/newest/SBCGlobal

I dont thing the network thing belongs to system/sw, maybe it should be in a 
main folder like system/network/rp-pppoe/current/SBCGlobal.

> But I also have a static IP for my home lan.
> I'm guessing that the _hardware_ info about the network cards (mac
> address, driver, etc. that kudzu produces) should be somewhere in
> system/hw

yes definively. Unfortunaly no distri and also not kudzu provide elektra as 
complete configuration system. The kudzu things, autodection should belong 
to /system/hw.
I dont now why Xfree is on /system/sw/XFree. In Addition is XFree is outdated, 
we should call it somehow to make it X-Server independ (there is more than 
x.org and xfree).

> But there would likely be another place for info about the actual
> connections that would have the profiles of those devices, possibly a
> symlink to the pppoe comfiguration, any ethernet aliases for multi-
> homing, etc. I don't want to just pick a spot.

Everything in sysconfig is definitiv something for elektra now. There is also 
a Project /etc/net. Anybody contacted them? They are working for a new-style 
networking scripts which provide some more features, i think.

> There is a network-convert script in /usr/share/doc/elektra/ that I
> looked in to see if there was a hint there, but it looks unfinished
> (while; nothing, done)

Yes unfortunately the scripts are not very good (ok, in this one there is 
nothing). They just work on Avi's Distri :-) But i have to admit there are 
*very* difficult to write if they should work on any configuration on 
different distris. I tried to cover the most cases for /etc/fstab, and this 
is one of the easiest configuration files.

mfg Markus