Re: dhcp3-client and D-I
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:26:12AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:43:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > > Okay. I've had a preliminary play with ipconfig over the weekend. Seems
> > > relatively straightforward to slot it into netcfg's dhcp.c. What I need to
> > > understand is the necessity to set a vendor-class-identifier attribute in
> > > with the request, is this a nicety or a need-to-have? ipconfig won't do it.
> >
> > It enables useful abilities like setting the appropriate default mirror
> > for all installs to a network. It's a new feature since sarge, so not
> > something a lot of people are using yet but very potentially powerful
> > and useful for larger networks.
>
> Yes, I read a related bug report when I was searching for this thread in my
> email, looks good.
>
> > Anyway, "good" news: The recent busybox change that dropped modutils
> > makes the i386 root floppy too large, triggering a lot of reorganisation
> > (and degraded functionality), after which we have enough free space on
> > there for the dhcp 3 client, so turn it back on and we can look at
> > including it.
>
> Done. Next upload, hopefully by the weekend at the latest, will include
> dhcp3-client-udeb again.
>
So said upload finally made it out of NEW the other day...
I note in another thread Gert's got a patch that extends the functionality
of ipconfig.
regards
Andrew
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