[RFC] plans for initscripts in F22

[Lukáš Nykrýn]

Dne 25.4.2014 13:24, Reindl Harald napsal(a):
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> Am 25.04.2014 13:12, schrieb Lukáš Nykrýn:
>> Dne 25.4.2014 12:50, Reindl Harald napsal(a):
>>> Am 25.04.2014 12:40, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:
>>>> On 04/24/2014 04:30 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
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>>>>> Only those that are maintained directly inside Fedora.
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>>>> Which is what we care about we cannot hold back progress in the
>>>> distribution based on someone, someplace, somewhere might be using
>>>> legacy cruff.
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>>> have you ever heard "if it ain't broken don't fix it"
>>> network.service works fine until someone decides to break it intentionally
>>>
>> network initscript *is* broken
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> no - such generalizations are always wrong
> it does not fit for every setup and it don't pretend that
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> proven by over 30 F19/F20 setups in a wide range from virtualized servers
> with simple setups to physical hardware with multiple network cards, virtual
> TAP devices acting as  routers, firewalls, WLAN accesspoints and VPN servers
> with up to 5 decdicated openvpn-instances with their own keys, ports and
> TAP devices it works for a lot of environments and they never will change
> because that is why virtualization is used
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>> During rhel7 beta I have discovered a lot of design flaws when people tried to use
>> it on some advance hardware. Boot in fedora is now quite asynchronous and network
>> is unable to cope with that. For example we have already removed the hotplug script.
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> network.service is not for hotplug
> it is for static configurations
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>> And I really don't want to end with NM on laptops, network on simple servers
>> and networkd elsewhere
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> i really won't end with NM on simple virtual servers with one virtual NIC
> so just don't break network.service intentionally because it does not fit
> your usecases
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> i don't demand you to you use network.service so don#t demand others
> using NM and completly rebuild complex working setups - that's not
> progress, that's just making development-noise to let people feel
> there was done some work the hard way and they have to chew it
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I agree. I also don't think that NM is the best solution for such 
use-cases. I believe that this is a place for networkd and I will not 
remove network initscript until networkd covers that.

Lukas