Re: dhclient sucks

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:57:41 -0700
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:56:02AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> On Wed, July 27, 2005 7:44 pm, Brooks Davis said:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:42:14AM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>> If we can't get things under control soon, we can look at alternate
> >>> options.  IMO, using the port isn't really an option because it
> >>> wouldn't allow users to install, but worst case reviving your version
> >>> of the ISC code for 6.x might be feasiable.  I'd really like to avoid
> >>> that route though.
> >>
> >> Hmm, I don't know whats the best thing to do currently. But I think the
> >>  option to use the old version after installing would make all users
> >> having problems happy (until they install a new box ;)
> >
> > Feel free to work up a patch.  I'd much rather spend my time trying to
> > solve the problems with the new code for the moment.
> 
> Why not work on the issues with the OpenBSD version of dhclient for now,
> if no solutions are found to the current problems before release of 6.0,
> then revert to ISC version for release, and keep the obsd version in
> current?

That's my plan.  I think we'll be able to fix the OpenBSD client
sufficently for 6.0, but should we fail, falling back to the ISC client
for RELNG_6 is the most rational thing to do.

-- Brooks

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