The following changes were made:

* Completely re-written as shell script
  * Modified documentation to better reflect reality
  * Removed the rather useless 'ifquery' tool

Makefile

@@ -8,19 +8,19 @@
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 # GNU General Public License for more details.
 
-DEPENDS = dhclient,iproute2,perl
+DEPENDS = dhclient,iproute2
 ARCH = none
 URL = 
 BRIEF = Scripts for starting and stopping network interfaces
 DESC = Scripts which use the iproute2 tools for automatically starting and \
 stopping network devices during startup.
-SNAPVER = 2
+SNAPVER = 0
 
 ARCHIVE :=
 SRCDIR := $(PWD)/SRC/iftools
 PATCHDIR := $(PWD)/SRC/patches
-VERSION := $(shell grep 'VERSION\s*=>' SRC/iftools/ifup| \
+VERSION := $(shell grep 'VERSION=' SRC/iftools/ifup| \
-	cut -d "'" -f2)-$(SNAPVER)
+	cut -d "=" -f2)-$(SNAPVER)
 
 include /usr/share/snap/Makefile.snaplinux
 

SRC/iftools/Makefile

@@ -16,10 +16,8 @@ files:
 
 links:
 	ln -s ifup.8 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/ifdown.8
-	ln -s ifup.8 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/ifquery.8
 	ln -s ifup.8 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/ifreload.8
 	ln -s ifup $(DESTDIR)/sbin/ifdown
-	ln -s ifup $(DESTDIR)/sbin/ifquery
 	ln -s ifup $(DESTDIR)/sbin/ifreload
 
 install: dirs files links

SRC/iftools/ifup.8

@@ -5,30 +5,25 @@ ifup \- bring a network interface up
 ifdown \- take a network interface down
 .br
 ifreload \- reload interface configuration
-.br
-ifquery \- view current state of interfaces
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B ifup
 \f |
 .B ifdown
 \f |
 .B ifreload
-\f |
-.B ifquery
 \f <OPTIONS> <INTERFACES>
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR ifup " and " ifdown
-commands may be used to configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network
+commands may be used to configure, or deconfigure network
 interfaces based on interface definitions in the file
 .IR /etc/network.conf ". The"
 .BR ifreload " command will perform an ifdown and ifup in one command."
-.BR ifquery " may be used to display the running configuration."
 .SH OPTIONS
 A summary of options is included below.
 .TP
-.BR \-a ", " \-\-all
+.BR \-a
-If given to \fBifup\fP, affect all interfaces marked \fBauto\fP.
+If given to \fBifup\fP, all interfaces marked \fBauto\fP are brought online.
 Interfaces are brought up in the order in which they are defined
 in
 .IR /etc/network.conf .
@@ -36,17 +31,17 @@ If given to \fBifdown\fP, affect all defined interfaces.
 Interfaces are brought down in the order in which they are
 listed in the configuration files.
 .TP
-.BR \-h ", " \-\-help
+.BR \-h
 Show summary of options.
 .TP
-.BR \-n ", " \-\-no\-act
+.BR \-n
-Don't configure any interfaces or run any "up" or "down" commands.
+Take no action, but output commands that would be executed.
 .TP
-.BR \-V ", " \-\-version
+.BR \-v
-Show copyright and version information.
+Show configuration steps as they are taken.
 .TP
-.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
+.BR \-V
-Show commands as they are executed.
+Show version information.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 .TP
 .B ifup -a
@@ -62,25 +57,17 @@ Bring up interface
 .TP
 .B ifdown -a
 Bring down all interfaces that are currently up.
-.TP
-.B ifquery eth0
-Print the running configuration of eth0
 .SH NOTES
 .BR ifup ,
 .BR ifdown ,
-.BR ifreload ,
 and
-.BR ifquery
+.BR ifreload
 are actually the same program called by different names.
 .P
 The program does not configure network interfaces directly;
 it runs low level utilities such as
 .BR ip
 to do its dirty work.
-.P
-When invoked a check will be performed to verify that there
-are no other instances running. If another instance is
-detected the program will exit with an error.
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 .I /etc/network.conf
@@ -88,9 +75,6 @@ definitions of network interfaces
 See
 .BR network.conf (5)
 for more information.
-.TP
-.I /run/network/ifstate
-current state of network interfaces
 .SH AUTHOR
 iftools was written by Jay Larson <jlarson@snaplinux.org>. The functionality is loosely based on the ifupdown suite written by Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>.
 .SH SEE ALSO

SRC/iftools/network.conf.5

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ There can be multiple "auto" stanzas.
 brings the named interfaces up in the order listed.
 .P
 Lines beginning with "source-directory" are used to source multiple
-files at once. All non-dotted files within the directory are sourced
+files at once. All non-dotted files ending in .conf within the directory
-in lexical order.
+are sourced in lexical order.
 .P
 When sourcing directories, if a path doesn't have a leading slash
 it's considered relative to the directory containing the network.conf