From 47a9af4b39bf174efed7f6d43644d4b0bc0c9886 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aotian Cao Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 09:58:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rc.d/NETWORKING: remove the NETWORK alias NETWORKING is the documented placeholder, while /etc/rc.d/NETWORKING still provides the legacy alias NETWORK. The NETWORKING script was originally introduced to avoid conflicts with NetBSD's lowercase network script on case-insensitive file systems. The NETWORK alias was retained for compatibility with older scripts. Following the discussion in PR 293652, remove the legacy NETWORK alias from 16-CURRENT. Keeping both names adds more confusion than value now that NETWORKING is the documented placeholder and current base system and ports tree uses are already clean. Add an UPDATING entry to note that local RC scripts using REQUIRE: NETWORK should be migrated to REQUIRE: NETWORKING. PR: 293652 Reviewed by: michaelo, jlduran Relnotes: yes Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56300 --- UPDATING | 6 ++++++ libexec/rc/rc.d/NETWORKING | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index d4a6e486aed..c60143c6184 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 16.x IS SLOW: world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20260412: + The /etc/rc.d/NETWORKING script no longer provides the legacy + NETWORK alias. Third-party or local RC scripts that still use + "REQUIRE: NETWORK" shall be updated to use "REQUIRE: NETWORKING" + instead. + 20260129: The "net.inet6.ip6.use_stableaddr" sysctl is now on by default. This changes the default algorithm to choose IPv6 SLAAC autogenerated diff --git a/libexec/rc/rc.d/NETWORKING b/libexec/rc/rc.d/NETWORKING index 402e20927a4..8f46e78e342 100755 --- a/libexec/rc/rc.d/NETWORKING +++ b/libexec/rc/rc.d/NETWORKING @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # # -# PROVIDE: NETWORKING NETWORK +# PROVIDE: NETWORKING # REQUIRE: netif netwait netoptions routing ppp ipfw stf # REQUIRE: defaultroute route6d resolv bridge # REQUIRE: static_arp static_ndp