Re: [PATCH] removal of libdhcp

[David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>]

On May 21, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 07:48 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > On May 21, 2008, at 5:50 AM, Elliot Peele wrote:
> > > What about distros that don't use NetworkManager? Will there be a  
> > > fall
> > > back? If we are using NetworkManager with Anaconda will it still  
> > > able
> > > able to generate "classic" network configuration?
> >
> >
> > Personally, I'd rather not allow users the option to create a classic
> > set of ifcfg-* files if we are doing NM by default.  As long as it's
> > an option, people will still use it, which means we'll still have to
> > support multiple ways of configuring network devices on the target
> > system.  If we're going NM for everything, it should be NM for
> > everything.
>
> Generating ifcfg-* files is still sane with NetworkManager, though.   
> It
> uses them for the system-settings backend


Right, but don't we need to write NM_CONTROLLED=i_think_so| 
probably_not to the ifcfg-* if the user wants "classic" config style  
or not?  And that would either need to be a switch somewhere (UI, boot  
arg, serial port dongle, kickstart flag, special spin of Fedora, etc),  
right?

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David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI