Hello,

I think keeping everything in /etc/iproute2 would work for us then.

This does not allow users to edit those files, but that shouldn’t happen anyways because we have scripts that rely on a certain format and edit the files.

-Michael

> On 13 Sep 2023, at 11:32, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Realised that I forgot to mention in the commit about the addition of the CONF_USR_DIR=/etc/iproute2
> 
> In previous versions of iproute2 they just had a single CONF_DIR which was /etc/iproute2
> 
> In version 6.5.0 they have split this into two CONF_ETC_DIR and CONF_USR_DIR
> 
> Here is a quote from the commit regarding this change:-
> 
> ========================
> Add support for the so called "stateless" configuration pattern (read
> from /etc, fall back to /usr), giving system administrators a way to
> define local configuration without changing any distro-provided files.
> 
> In practice this means that each configuration file FOO is loaded
> from /usr/lib/iproute2/FOO unless /etc/iproute2/FOO exists.
> ========================
> 
> This resulted in the files that used to be in /etc/iproute2 not being there and the directory also being missing.
> 
> I could have just created the directory and copied across all the files in the LFS but it seemed that this would duplicate the files and we are not a typical distro where the user might create customised conf files.
> 
> So I changed the lfs to set CONF_USR_DIR to /etc/iproute2 rather than the default /usr/lib/iproute2 This basically keeps everything in the same place as it used to be with the earlier versions.
> 
> If anyone thinks it should be done differently I can always change it at the next update.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
> 
> On 13/09/2023 12:14, Adolf Belka wrote:
>> - Update from version 6.4.0 to 6.5.0
>> - Update of rootfile
>> - Changelog is only available by reviewing the github commits
>>    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/log/
>> Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
>> ---
>>  config/rootfiles/common/iproute2 |  1 +
>>  lfs/iproute2                     | 13 +++++++++----
>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/config/rootfiles/common/iproute2 b/config/rootfiles/common/iproute2
>> index 420a33c85..15bad27f7 100644
>> --- a/config/rootfiles/common/iproute2
>> +++ b/config/rootfiles/common/iproute2
>> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tc
>>  #usr/share/man/man8/dcb-ets.8
>>  #usr/share/man/man8/dcb-maxrate.8
>>  #usr/share/man/man8/dcb-pfc.8
>> +#usr/share/man/man8/dcb-rewr.8
>>  #usr/share/man/man8/dcb.8
>>  #usr/share/man/man8/devlink-dev.8
>>  #usr/share/man/man8/devlink-dpipe.8
>> diff --git a/lfs/iproute2 b/lfs/iproute2
>> index cfdb474cb..1a55a1bb8 100644
>> --- a/lfs/iproute2
>> +++ b/lfs/iproute2
>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>>    include Config
>>  -VER        = 6.4.0
>> +VER        = 6.5.0
>>    THISAPP    = iproute2-$(VER)
>>  DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.xz
>> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
>>    $(DL_FILE)             = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
>>  -$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 76369d2a794afd13dba1a34ee9a7425775bb7b43c22164274749c01b18d061669aa5abd51d32a15d68f48e75f4837a887dfc28ea41e34d8e4c36b2ab865628dd
>> +$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 537a956c2fb59df25e90d7899a981e5408c5ee029df2bb87461b899ecf8fe4424a1db5d1b1b67a67bdb2555f6cc4aaf099b0544a2c92ffc3843adc3d17defb96
>>    install : $(TARGET)
>>  @@ -70,8 +70,13 @@ $(subst %,%_BLAKE2,$(objects)) :
>>  $(TARGET) : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
>>   @$(PREBUILD)
>>   @rm -rf $(DIR_APP) && cd $(DIR_SRC) && tar axf $(DIR_DL)/$(DL_FILE)
>> - cd $(DIR_APP) && make $(MAKETUNING) SBINDIR=/sbin
>> - cd $(DIR_APP) && make SBINDIR=/sbin install
>> + cd $(DIR_APP) && make $(MAKETUNING) \
>> + SBINDIR=/sbin \
>> + CONF_USR_DIR=/etc/iproute2
>> + cd $(DIR_APP) && make \
>> + SBINDIR=/sbin \
>> + CONF_USR_DIR=/etc/iproute2 \
>> + install
>>   cd $(DIR_APP) && mv -v /sbin/arpd /usr/sbin
>>     # Add table for static routing