Bug#630000: d-i cannot receive an IP address from Mac OS X

[mjt@tls.msk.ru]

Somehow I haven't seen this whole 630000 bug discussion,
even when I'm subscribed to busybox in bts and to debian-boot@.
Catching up now...

22.06.2011 16:44, Hector Oron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 2011/6/15 Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>:
>> tags 630000 + patch
>> thanks
>>
>> And here is quilt patch for 1.17.1-8.
> 
> Thanks! Are you able to reproduce on latest busybox (1:1.18.4-2)?

Latest released busybox does not have that patch applied,
it went to future version.  So the mentioned version
should fail the same way as the one in squeeze.

> Have you tested the patch? Is it suitable to be included upstream?

It is already included upstream but only for some future version.
I'm not sure upstream will release any new 1.17.y version, and
this patch isn't present in latest 1.18.5 either, so may be it
will be in a next 1.18.y.

Please note that this code is quite old and the problem appeared
only now, so there's little interest in fixing it, I think.  Or
maybe it's just one version of MacOS dhcp server that dislikes
these zeros, again, not very common.

I run-tested both 1.18.4 and 1.17.1 here with this patch applied,
it works correctly but I don't have any MacOS systems handy to
test it against its dhcpd.

Maybe it's a good idea to include it into squeeze-p-u, and it's
definitely nice fix to have for sid.  I'll apply the patch to
git later today.

Thanks!

/mjt