Re: dhcp clients

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Am Don, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 05:39:
> I noticed that while the cdrom install pulls in dhcp-client-udeb and
> uses it for dhcp, the floppy net install does not have a dhcp client
> listed, so it falls back to using udhcp, from busybox-cvs-udeb.
> 
> This does not seem like a good idea, it puts us in the position of
> supporting more than one dhcp client. I have plenty of space on the
> floppy for dhcp-client-udeb, and this would also let udhcp be turned off
> in busybox-cvs-udeb, possibly saving some space.
> 
> The situation is even more confused for the netboot image, which uses:
>  - dhcp-client-udeb (hppa, ia64, mipsel)
>  - pump (all other arches)
> 
> So we're suppporting *3* dhcp clients on i386 alone!

I suggest to only use dhcp-client-udeb if it's available on all arches.
At least we should standardize on one dhcp client if there is no good
reason for keeping different clients for different arches.

gaudenz