Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:56:34PM -0500 wrote:
> The next major stumbling block I ran into was that pump doesn't work
> (bts# 94176). Pump has annoyed me for a number of reasons including
> bts#64092 and its kin. I think there was some discussion some time ago
> about perhaps using dhcp-client. So I hacked dhcp-client to work. It
> works very well. The downside is that dhcp-client takes up a bit more
> space than pump: 137930 (more if kernel 2.0 support is required) vs.
I don't think we need to directly support 2.0.x on boot-floppies, though if we
decide not to we should make a note in the docs that dhcp won't work if you
replace the kernel with a 2.0 serias.
> 58112. It's easy enough to #def this into/out of dbootstrap, but not
> quite so trivial to maintain both versions of the EXTRACT files. Let me
> know if you want the patch, even if just for dbootstrap.
I've got an idea. Why don't we use dhcp-client-udeb? It is destined for use
with debian-installer and is a bit smaller than the .deb:
ruff:davidw$ dpkg -c dhcp-client-udeb_2.0pl5-5_i386.udeb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-11 12:38:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-11 12:38:11 ./sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 107356 2001-05-11 12:38:11 ./sbin/dhclient
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-11 12:38:08 ./etc/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 5816 2001-05-11 12:38:08 ./etc/dhclient-script
ruff:davidw$
The udeb already exists in the archive, the only thing to do would
be to modify
the apt magic so it looks for it. Saves us a little space, and a lot of people
complain about pump.