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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

I really did send this, something ate the GPG signature :/
Perhaps it'll work correctly this time....

David Kowis wrote:
> I feel this is ready. I've done extensive testing (Yay for Xen virtual
> machines :D).
> 
> Starting from a bare system (I had nfs-utils and openssh installed to
> make things easier for me) just casting net-tools, which has had its
> PATCHLEVEL increased. Which means it'll show up in sorcery queue, and
> that you'll get the changes as soon as you update the spell, either by
> patch or when it gets into test.
> 
> The cast of net-tools stops and asks you if you really want to do this,
> and it will ask you every time, until you install ifupdown. But ifupdown
> won't let you try to cast it until you've installed the latest of
> net-tools. This forces the caster to do net-tools first, which is the
> only upgrade path. net-tools installs it's own ifup and ifdown, both of
> which have to be removed before a successful installation of ifupdown
> can happen.
> 
> So you must cast net-tools. When you do say Y to the "i've got time"
> question, it triggers a cast_self on ifupdown, which ensures that you do
> have a network init script that's the correct one and that ifup and
> ifdown are installed. This is an excellent upgrade path. net-tools is
> updated, and immediately afterward, ifupdown is installed.
> 
> On subsequent casts, there aren't any questions and they behave as good
> little spells should.
> 
> Once this stuff filters down into test, we can remove the PREPARE and
> UP_TRIGGERS files so that we have less logic to deal with.
> 
> I've attached a patch. Bzip'd so that it wouldn't be 20k.
> 
> Also:
> 
> git clone http://shlrm.org/repos/grimoire/.git grimoire
> 
> Will give you the thing. It's a clone of our grimoire, so to expedite it
> you can do (and I would prefer it, as it would take far less time and
> save on my bandwidth, it'll reuse packs from the referenced repo)
> 
> git clone --reference /path/to/your/current/repo
> http://shlrm.org/repos/grimoire/.git newrepo
> 
> Then you need to acquire the remote branch ifupdown
> 
> git checkout --track -b <local name> origin/ifupdown
> 
> That should get you the commits I've made.
> 
> I plan on pushing to the test grimoire once I get a few nods off on
> this, or after a few days. This is not a small thing (or I don't think
> it is.) I'd almost force an issue vote if I thought anyone really cared
> about it. But I don't think people are going to do anything until
> something breaks, so I'm going to assume your silent consent.
> 
> This is it. Speak up and let me know what you think about this. Also,
> give it a shot and make sure that I didn't miss something.
> 
> 
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