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Re: Bug#743292: dhclient fails during installation with weekly iso (freebsd-amd64)



Hei Steven,

Am 22.04.2014 15:00, schrieb Steven Chamberlain:
> I think that problem was the inverse of this.  I suspect you had an
> older freebsd-net-tools installed and it couldn't configure networking
> on kFreeBSD 10.  d-i has the newer freebsd-net-tools-udeb/10.0+ds1-1 but
> it is no longer working for kFreeBSD 9.

Confirmed. net-tools 9 does not work with kfreebsd 10 kernel.

> It was planned to someday remove kfreebsd-9 from d-i, but we still need
> to think what happens during upgrades.  Maybe freebsd-net-tools needs to
> set a Breaks: on older kernels?
> 
> Or there may even be a way to modify freebsd-net-tools so it is
> compatible with both kernels, if that's vital.

I could test this, but I'm afraid I have not enough knowledge for more.

Fact is if I upgrade a testing from 9 to 10 today it drops the
kfreebsd-9 kernel. The version 10 kernel boots up, but then I run into
the aforementioned bug so I don't have network on 10. :-/

Greets
Alex


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