System Config Tools Cleanup Project - tools to eliminate/replace
David Lutterkort
lutter at redhat.com
Tue Mar 24 18:47:16 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 17:10 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> * system-config-netboot
> - very outdated
> - replacements k12linux, cobbler
Heh, yeah, the shortcomings of this were the inspiration for cobbler.
> * system-config-boot
> - at least it needs facelift and it's not very usable at all
And should probably use Augeas in the backend.
> * system-config-network
> - replacement NetworkManager
> - missing IPv6? routing?
If a tool like this is needed at all (though NM should really just
absorb the functionality), the backend should be based on netcf[1]
David
[1] Currently at http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/netcf, but I'll
move it to fedorahosted any day now, and actually make a release.
The intent is to have netcf as a distro-agnostic backend for network
configuration that can be used by at least libvirt and NM
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