Laine Stump wrote:
On 01/06/2011 02:03 PM, Zdenek Styblik wrote:
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Hello,
On 01/05/2011 04:43 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
On 01/05/2011 06:12 AM, Zdenek Styblik wrote:
Zdenek - I'd be very happy to have a Slackware port of netcf, and would be willing to help out getting it in (as long as you'd be willing to help me setup a Slackware guest so I could test your patches ;-) There have been 4 other people who started netcf ports (debian, arch linux, suse, and (believe it or not, MS Windows)), but so far none has followed through to actually pushing something into the main netcf git.
just wait a second; did you actually say "patches"? :) What is the original platform/distro of NetCF?
It was originally developed for Fedora and RHEL (RHEL5.x up to a point, but now only RHEL6 support is up-to-date due to libnl version incompatibilities on 5.x).
Because the network config files differ for different distros, there are a couple of files that need to be different for each (or in some cases where two distros are very close, maybe they can share the same source files, with a few #ifdefs). The files defining the API, and implementing the toplevel functions of the API should be common to all platforms, and there is also a file of utility functions that should be useful on all Linux platforms (but not on Windows).
As far as I know, the SuSE port was actually complete at one time, and was included in a released product (not sure what the product is),
It hasn't been included in a product yet, but might be in upcoming openSUSE 11.4.
but I don't know where the source is (aside from earlier versions posted to the list and available in the archives),
It currently resides in network:utilities project in openSUSE Build Service https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=netcf&project=network%3Autilities
and the developers haven't had the resources available to clean it up and submit it back to the upstream project.
My only involvement was enabling netcf support in libvirt, so I can't say much about the work or any progress to upstream it. I've cc'd Patrick - he was involved and perhaps could provide an update. Regards, Jim