Drop ifenslave

[Ryan Harper]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On 20 August 2017 at 01:14, Ryan Harper <ryan.harper at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > AFAICT, the dependency on ifenslave is from the ifupdown hooks provided
> > (none of which execute /sbin/ifenslave).
> > I wouldn't drop the ifupdown dependency on ifenslave unless you moved the
> > ifdown scripts somewhere else.
> >
> > Certainly in Artful, if one does not have ifupdown, the package
> ifenslave is
> > not going to provide any benefit, however if someone installs ifenslave;
> I
> > feel that it should also depend on ifupdown as the scripts are where the
> > integration happen.
> >
> > Do you think there is a use-case for the ifenslave package without
> ifupdown?
> >
>
> ifenslave has two portions: the ifupdown integration & /sbin/ifenslave.
> /sbin/ifenslave is usesable by itself
> if-up down hooks enhance ifupdown, but are themselves inert
>
> In this sence ifenslave does not depend on ifupdown, but enhances it.
> And instead of ifenslave depending on ifupdown, maybe in the new world
> order ifupdown should recommend ifenslave.
>

> or since the hooks do not depend on ifenslave they should simply be
> moved into the ifupdown package. This would simply things, no?
>

I'd fully support this since the scripts do not make use of the binary
provided in the ifenslave package.
If that transition happens, I think it makes sense to no longer depend on
ifenslave in any way in the ifupdown package.


>
>
> > Ryan Harper
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at ubuntu.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Can we drop ifenslave?
> >>
> >> It's functionality is superseeded by iproute2 as far as I understand
> >> and the ifupdown integration is no longer as relevant, as we are about
> >> to default netplan & networkd.
> >>
> >> At least, is it ok to drop the ifupdwon dependency from ifenslave?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Dimitri.
> >>
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dimitri.
>
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