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34 lines
1.2 KiB
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# ifupdown-ng
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ifupdown-ng is a network device manager that is largely compatible with Debian
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ifupdown, BusyBox ifupdown and Cumulus Networks' ifupdown2.
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## Dependency Resolution
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ifupdown-ng uses a dependency resolver to determine interface bring-up order
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in a deterministic way. To use this feature, you must declare relationships
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between interfaces with the `requires` keyword. This keeps the implementation
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efficient. For convenience, the `requires` keyword is exported to executors
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as the `IF_REQUIRES` environment variable.
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For compatibility with some legacy ifupdown executors, we also provide the
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`requires` keyword under other environment variables in some cases.
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## Caveats
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* ifupdown2 python plugins are not supported at this time. An executor could be
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written to handle them.
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* ifupdown-ng retains compatibility with /etc/network/if-X.d scripts, but will
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prefer using executors in /usr/libexec/ifupdown-ng where appropriate.
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## Building
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Simply do `make` and `make install` to build and install.
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To run the tests, do `make check`.
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To build the documentation, do `make docs` and `make install_docs`. Building
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the documentation requires scdoc (`apk add scdoc`).
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