initscripts

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 22 13:17, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Corinna Vinschen <fedora at cygwin.de> wrote:
> > On Jan 22 18:44, poma wrote:
> >>
> >> I see that some people are trying to "modernize" Fedora.
> >> But what about RHEL relictum - initscripts, particularly now that we
> >> have NetworkManager/ModemManager and systemd-networkd,
> >> when will this package "fall off"?
> >
> > I hope not unless the job of the network script is seamlessly taken over
> > by something else. I'm not keen to update my machines just to find out
> > that my network as defined under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts is
> > suddenly broken.
> 
> NM reads "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*" files but you have
> to test whether you have some settings that NM doesn't grok.

As long as NM doesn't grok all possible settings from the ifcfg scripts,
it's not exactly a seamless replacement.  There are also probably lots
of scripts using ifup/ifdown to handle ppp and pppoe connections on
router machines.  These commands may be replaced with newer variants,
but they must not go away.


Corinna