Phil, you've been one of the most active ppl on netcfg. Care to comment?
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:28:09 +0000
From: Sean Noonan <Sean.Noonan@twosigma.com>
To: "'682342@bugs.debian.org'" <682342@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#682342: a fix for dhcp search path issues
Reply-To: Sean Noonan <Sean.Noonan@twosigma.com>, 682342@bugs.debian.org
X-Mailing-List: <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/173316
X-CRM114-Status: Good ( pR: 30.0127 )
We recently ran into this problem. The expedient way to fix it is to replace the netcfg binary in the initrd with one compiled using the following patch.
--- dhcp.c 2013-01-13 08:23:24.000000000 -0500
+++ ../dhcp.c 2013-05-21 14:25:55.613957486 -0400
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@
preseed_hostname_from_fqdn(client, buf);
}
- if (netcfg_get_hostname (client, "netcfg/get_hostname", hostname, 1)) {
+ if (netcfg_get_hostname (client, "netcfg/get_hostname", hostname, !have_domain)) {
/*
* Going back to POLL wouldn't make much sense.
* However, it does make sense to go to the retry
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