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[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Julien,

I have had the opportunity to have a quick chat with Roopa here at
Linux Plumbers about an ifupdown2 renderer for netplan.

Any news on your work?

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 5:13 PM Julien Fortin <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Julien Fortin
>> <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hello Mathieu!
>> >
>> > I'm Julien Fortin, debian maintainer of ifupdown2
>> > (https://packages.debian.org/stretch/ifupdown2). Ifupdown2 is a python
>> > re-write of ifupdown. It comes with many new features and bug fixes (vxlans,
>> > vrfs, templating, interface dependencies etc...) while keeping backward
>> > compatibility with ifupdown syntax.
>> >
>> > We would like to offer netplan support to our community by adding a new
>> > ifupdown2 renderer to netplan.
>> > I'm ready to get my hands dirty and write C code to implement the ifupdown2
>> > renderer, I just need some guidance :)
>> >
>>
>> I'm familiar with ifupdown2, I have seen presentations about it at
>> DebConf (and possibly elsewhere) in the past.
>>
>> There isn't much to writing a backend, you want to update
>> src/generate.c to make sure things can be pushed to your backend (in
>> nd_iterator()), and everything else in one file for the methods that
>> will write the configuration. You will also need to update parse.{c,h}
>> to allow the new backend name to be recognized.
>>
>> The rest depends on how you'll write the configuration itself; but
>> your function will be passed a net_definition object which contains
>> all the details about a single interface.
>
>
> Thanks for the information. That sounds easier than I thought.
> I'll take a look at it and try it out. I'll send a PR when the ifupdown2 will
> be ready.
>
> Regards, Julien.
>
>>
>> Kindly,
>>
>> Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl@xxxxxxxxx>
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