Re: netapplet Gentoo Patch.

[Mike Chavoustie <chavoumd clarkson edu>]

Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> ifup/ifdown is pretty useless on Gentoo since every device has it's own
> bootscript, so ifup eth0 becomes /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
>
> either way, fantastic work, keep it up!
>
> Regards, Ruben

Hey all.

I just recently did the same Gentoo port myself -- but I got a chance to 
finish. :)  The best that I have been able to tell, it's fully 
functional.  It works great here @ school with 5/6 networks available.

The diff is available here:
http://www.clarkson.edu/~chavoumd/gentoo-netapplet.diff

Here's a screenshot of it in action:
http://www.clarkson.edu/~chavoumd/images/netapplet-gentoo.jpg

I'm also working with some other guys here in our lab to get a Fedora 
port done.  Afterward we're going to start taking a look at common 
functionality we can start to pull out to make a generic infastructure 
for all distros -- most likely the mention earlier of a set of scripts 
that each distro needs to implement.

Ideally it'd be nice to use the gnome-system-tools infastructure, but I 
don't know the infastructure at all or if it can support something like 
this.

Lemme know if there are any problems with this one.  Many kudos to 
Matthew Garret again -- I'm glad Debian is so close to how Gentoo does 
things. :)

--Mike Chavoustie