[CentOS-devel] please add vnconfig to minimal install CD
Matthew Patton
mpatton at inforelay.com
Sat Aug 18 00:08:25 UTC 2012
Just throwing these out there as reference.
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Installation_Guide/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Installation_Guide-en-US.pdf
<quote>
Only the most commonly used commands are available in the pre-installation
environment:
arping, awk, basename, bash, bunzip2, bzcat, cat, chattr, chgrp, chmod,
chown, chroot,
...
umount, uniq, vconfig, vi, wc, wget, xargs, zcat.
^^^^^^^
</quote>
So it was only last year that RH got all traces of vconfig out of the
standard scripts and tools. Good for them. However, there are lots of
references like these:
http://www.serkey.com/vlan-configuration-native-vlan-and-setting-pvid-bcu5dw.html
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenNetworking
These directly reference vconfig, include official sources, and are
reasonably recent.
I'm not arguing that IP-Utils hasn't been the "more correct" solution for
years or that any new script I write I should use the right tool. Only
pointing out that vconfig is very much entrenched into the psyche of
sysadmins, many of whom still use RHEL4 and RHEL5 as well as Ubuntu and
other rot and we very much don't intend to have multiple versions of our
scripts. Vconfig has been a stable in such things as vif-bridge scripts
for KVM or Xen for years. If you look at CloudStack and I'll bet anything
OpenStack has them by the bushel too.
But as has been said, "yum install vconfig" and we can go away chuffed. If
the intent is for "minimal" to be pure and legacy free, then I can live
with it.
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