Re: Bug#154142: dhcp-client conflicts
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:09:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:07:02AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > [Please excuse my terseness. I'm learning the Dvorak keyboard
> > and this makes me economize my words even more than usual.]
>
> So come back to the QWERTY dark side. Quicker, easier. :)
No kidding.
> > > If we handle dhcp-client as we do other virtual packages, the specific
> > > knowledge is expressed where it is needed (i.e., "my package can use
> > > udhcpc and nothing else" ), and not everywhere *except* where it's
> > > needed.
> >
> > This compatibility does not currently exist. udhcpc, for
> > instance, will by default not exit unsuccessfully if it fails to
> > obtain a lease. Other clients use a different option to control
> > this, or do it by default. Similarly for choosing which
> > interface to configure.
>
> It's my contention that for the purposes of a virtual package, this
> simply doesn't matter. postfix, sendmail, and exim exhibit different
> behaviors as well; that doesn't make them non-mail-transfer-agents.
>
> Perhaps you're thinking of alternatives, where command-line
> compatibility -- at least to some defined extent -- is required.
But they do provide (at least some) command-line compatibility,
/usr/lib/sendmail.
> > > #113620 has little to do with this. ifupdown declares no dependency on
> > > any DHCP client. That it did not properly support udhcpc has nothing to
> > > do with package dependencies and thus nothing to do with virtual
> > > packages.
> >
> > I was citing it as an example of how widely the interfaces
> > differ, not of how the dependencies should be handled.
>
> So you have no objection to a dhcp-client virtual package, then?
Suppose `Provides: dhcp-client' is added to udhcpc. Does it
also need to provide a script, /sbin/dhcp-client, which invokes
udhcpc with the correct options, and conflict with the other
DHCP clients?
Matt
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