Re: location dhcpd.conf

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:05:24 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote:

>> And there are also some nice docs for each package and README files ;-)
> 
> Which I would read if I were unfamiliar with the software. Which I'm
> not. ;-)

I did, and that's why I can now tell you what was the source of all this 
mess :-P

I was also in the need of installing a dhcp client package -the client 
part in my case- and fell into this.

>> The changelog reflects the changes done in a package while in this case
>> there two packages providing the same service, so deciding what to keep
>> and what to install is up to the user/admin.
> 
> Normaly I would agree but in this case the upgrade changed dhcp3-server
> into isc-dhcp-server for me. 

The upgrade did the right thing, I guess. The new package is the isc-* 
one.

> So I would have liked to read somewhere logical that the config file
> location had been changed. Oh well, if that's all I'm going to run into
> then upgrading the next bunch of servers should be a piece of cake. ;-)

Well, the fact is that I only had to dig a bit because the package itself 
was self-explaining (this comes from "dhcp3-server" package description  
in squeeze):

***
ISC DHCP server (transitional package)

(...)

This is a dummy package to aid in transitioning from the v3 DHCP packages 
to the new-style DHCP packages.

This dummy package may be safely removed after upgrading to squeeze 
***

:-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón