[arch-projects] netcfg release rfc

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> Hi Jouke,
>
> I don't use netcfg, so sorry if these questions are stupid:
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> - Configuration has moved out of 'rc.conf'. Please move your
>> configuration to '/etc/conf.d/netcfg'.
>
> Does this mean that the old config will stop working?
Without a deprecation notice, this is going to screw a lot of people
over, if it has been removed. Especially since WIRED_INTERFACE
couldn't even be read from both files in the 2.7.x version (commit
9564b6c66), you need a migration period for this.

>> - Connection types ending in '-old', '-dbus' and '-iproute' are
>> discontinued. Remove the suffix if you still have it: you didn't need
>> it.
>
> Does this mean that things will stop working for people who don't
> update their config?
>
> If at all possible, it is usually for the best if we let old configs
> continue to work, but remove their documentation and print warnings
> when they are used (but maybe that's what you have done :-) ). As a
> comparison, the old network syntax in rc.conf still works, even though
> we complain when it is used.