Andrew Pollock wrote: > I had another look at #398966 at Debconf, and got to the bottom of it, so > aside from the fact that it's bloody huge, it should now be viable for use > in d-i. > > I'm really keen to see the back of the DHCPv2 packages in Debian, so will it > be okay to swap d-i to the v3 udeb until such time that a smaller > alternative is found? Well, good news: The new dhcp3-client-udeb fits on the floppy-net-drivers-1 disk. That disk had 363k free before; with the new dhcp version, this drops to 249k free. We have lots of space since the installer no longer can access the net using only the root floppy. :-/ Since a typical kernel NIC module is in the 10-50k range, the size bloat is just equivilant to the kernel growing a couple of nic drivers. And we already have a third floppy to dump those on when they fill up the current floppy. I've only looked at i386, but it looks ok size-wise there. The couple hundred kb that the new version uses in memory is also probably ok, especially given the masses of memory we've freed up with cdebconf memory optimisations recently. The dhcp preseeding feature looks, by inspection, to still work ok with dhcp3-client-udeb, since it knows to look for /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases. I have not actually tested it since I don't have a dhcp preseeding setup handy ATM. My inclination, and plan, is to switch everything over to the new version and see if anything breaks. Unless someone has a reason why this is a bad idea. -- see shy jo
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