[arch-general] netcfg v2.5.2 in [core]

[James Rayner]

netcfg v2.5.2

This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration.
The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also
some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people.

Move to new auto-wireless/wired
The new automatic connection has proper roaming support and will prove
more reliable than the old setup - particularly with more complicated
wireless configurations.
To migrate to the new automatic wireless setup:
1. pacman -S testing/wpa_actiond
2. Set WIRELESS_INTERFACE="" to your wireless interface in /etc/rc.conf.
For example WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0"
3. Add net-auto-wireless to your DAEMONS=() array.

Note: wpa-config profiles do not work with this, convert them to
wpa-configsection profiles. An example is included in
/etc/network.d/examples/

The new auto-wired uses similar configuration - follow the above
instructions except use the net-auto-wired daemon, and WIRED_INTERFACE
configuration option.

New features:
- net-auto-wireless/wpa_actiond - Real wireless roaming/auto connection.
Based on same principle as autowifi. Requires optional dependency:
wpa_actiond
- net-auto-wired - automatic ethernet configuration. Requires optional
dependency: ifplugd 
- Interface configurations - set options for all profiles using an
interface
- Output hooks
- Internal cleanup & improvement

Internal changes:
- Uses wpa_supplicant for all wireless configuration by default,
including wep/none security. This adds improves support for most and
should improve reliability. 
  - Uses iproute by default for all static configuration. net_tools
  which contains ifconfig is effectively obsolete and hasnt seen a
  release for over 8 years. The 'ethernet-iproute' and 'ethernet'
  connection types have been merged together to simply 'ethernet'. All
  options are still supported and existing configurations will continue
  to work for both types. A symlink has been made to ensure that
  profiles using 'ethernet-iproute' will continue to function. 
  
Changes in configuration syntax
- net-auto and AUTO_NETWORKS is now deprecated in favour of
net-auto-wireless/net-auto-wired. 
- wireless: If you were previously specifying the wpa_supplicant driver
in WPA_OPTS, you now need to specify it in WPA_DRIVER.
- wireless: iwconfig based configuration for wep/none can be used by
changing to wep-old or none-old. This should not be necessary and is
left in place only for the possibility of very old drivers that do not
support wpa_supplicant. 
- ethernet-iproute: As 'ethernet' is now iproute based, those using
'ethernet-iproute' can revert the name. There is a symlink in place, so
existing configurations of either name will continue to function
regardless.
- wireless-dbus: Unsupported. The wpa_supplicant dbus interface isn't
particularly well documented and it doesn't fit well into the netcfg
codebase. There is a symlink in place so that configurations using
wireless-dbus will continue to function using the 'wireless' connection
scripts.

Download:
netcfg 2.5.2 is in [core].
Source: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/netcfg/netcfg-2.5.2.tar.gz
PKGBUILD: In subversion

Documentation:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles

Contributors:
I had a few big contributors to this release:
Jim Pryor: Many internal changes and improvements
Thomas Bächler: wpa_actiond based auto roaming/connection
Thanks guys!

Bugs:
On the bug tracker as always.