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Re: Bug#154142: dhcp-client conflicts



On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:44:13AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:29:22AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:05:09AM -0500, Eric Gillespie wrote:
> > > Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Suppose that no common interface is provided: if etherconf
> > > > doesn't know how to invoke udhcpc, then having udhcpc provide
> > > > dhcp-client will break etherconf's DHCP support.
> > > 
> > > Etherconf never invokes anything other than ifup and ifdown.  It's ifup
> > > that has the smarts.  I know it already handles dhcp-client and pump;
> > > i think (but may be wrong) that Branden has seen it work with udhcpc.
> > 
> > In that case I withdraw my objections.
> 
> Please tell that to debian-policy; better yet, second my request for a
> dhcp-client virtual package.

OK, I second Branden's request.

Matt

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