[kde-freebsd] kdeadmin4: patch to fix knetworkconf

[Alberto Villa]

hello list!

i've started making the porting of knetworkconf, the network configurator 
shipped with kdeadmin, which is now broken (System Settings > Network 
Settings... have a look at it)

here's the patch for sysutils/kdeadmin4 and some words about it
good things:
- added automatic identification for freebsd 7 and 8 (no more "you're system 
is unsupported" message)
- fixed the gateway finder (correct address now printed in the field - at 
least for ipv4 - and no more "cannot read /proc/net/route" error)
bad ones:
- interfaces and domain name not listed yet (but i'll work on it if you think 
it's a good thing)
- all the data is retrieved with freebsd 5 functions... i need to review each 
of them
- it's a bit unstable when editing the configuration (but this is fault of the 
program itself): if you run it with root privileges it may break some network 
files... but so far i wasn't able to get a breakage without noticing it before 
pressing OK. you may want to backup your rc.conf, hosts, smb.conf and so 
on, anyway

i'd like to finish the porting of this app and send patches to upstream if you 
agree. the other solution would be removing it from kdeadmin (at the current 
state it's useless), but i think it's a nice tool to review network 
configuration

ah: i didn't send a patch with a pr because it's not ready yet, and i'd like 
to discuss its future with you

thanks for your attention
-- 
Alberto Villa <villa.alberto at gmail.com>

O Lord, grant that we may always be right,
for Thou knowest we will never change our minds.
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