Bug 32807 - dhcpcd is incomplete; patches included
Summary: dhcpcd is incomplete; patches included
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: dhcpcd
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
QA Contact:
URL: ftp://ftp.kscanners.no/pub/SRPMS/dhcp...
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-23 09:23 UTC by Toralf
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-10-12 07:13:46 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Revert host/domain name + execute script on release (5.03 KB, patch)
2001-03-23 09:25 UTC, Toralf
no flags Details | Diff
Create /etc/yp.conf, and update domain name by default (3.38 KB, patch)
2001-03-23 09:29 UTC, Toralf
no flags Details | Diff
Create /etc/ntp.conf (3.56 KB, patch)
2001-03-23 09:30 UTC, Toralf
no flags Details | Diff
Updated RPM .spec file (3.44 KB, text/plain)
2001-03-23 09:33 UTC, Toralf
no flags Details
Add retry loop for hardware address lookup (3.48 KB, patch)
2001-04-04 11:39 UTC, Toralf
no flags Details | Diff

Description Toralf 2001-03-23 09:23:33 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686)


I've updated dhcpcd to add the following functionality:

1. Host name and domain names are reset to the original settings, and
   dhcd-<interface>.exe is executed, on "DHCP release".
2. /etc/yp.conf and /etc/ntp.conf are updated in a manner similar to
   /etc/resolv.conf.
3. domainname is always updated unless yp.conf update is disabled (in
   which case domainname update may be turned back on using the old
   '-D' option)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Boot....

I'm using dhcpcd rather than pump for the following two reasons:

1. It seems like I'm always going to need "event" scripts, and writing
   these is easier for dhcpcd becauase of the way it writes info files
   with sh syntax.
2. I'm having problems with the original versions of both, especially
   on laptops, but the behaviour of dhcpcd is more predictable (it
   simply fails to take some necessary steps) and therefore easier
   to update. (pump is incomplete _and_ unstable, e.g. it seems to
   exit halfway through for PCMCIA network, and some of the fields are
   sometimes transferred, sometimes not.)

Comment 1 Toralf 2001-03-23 09:25:42 UTC
Created attachment 13410 [details]
Revert host/domain name + execute script on release

Comment 2 Toralf 2001-03-23 09:29:17 UTC
Created attachment 13411 [details]
Create /etc/yp.conf, and update domain name by default

Comment 3 Toralf 2001-03-23 09:30:19 UTC
Created attachment 13412 [details]
Create /etc/ntp.conf

Comment 4 Toralf 2001-03-23 09:33:24 UTC
Created attachment 13413 [details]
Updated RPM .spec file

Comment 5 Toralf 2001-04-04 11:39:48 UTC
Created attachment 14604 [details]
Add retry loop for hardware address lookup

Comment 6 Toralf 2001-04-04 11:42:28 UTC
Note that the latest patch applies to version "1.3.19-pl9." Source RPM
containing new source code distribution as well as updated versions of the other
pactches and the .spec file is available under URL indicated.

Comment 7 Elliot Lee 2001-09-11 00:22:10 UTC
Hi,

Apologies for the unresponsiveness of the previous dhcpcd packager, and
thanks for the contribution. Would it be possible for you to get this directly
into the canonical dhcpcd releases? You can reach the author at sv.

Thanks.

Comment 8 Toralf 2001-09-11 09:39:19 UTC
I e-mailed the patches several months ago, and got a reply saying that they
would probably be integrated shortly, but as far as I can tell, there has been
no dhcpcd release after that...

Comment 9 Toralf 2001-10-12 07:13:39 UTC
n 2001.10.12 05:15 Sergei Viznyuk wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> your patches have been incorporated into new
> dhcpcd release:
> ftp://ftp.phystech.com/pub/dhcpcd-1.3.21-pl0.tar.gz

An updated distribution based on this would be very welcome!

Comment 10 Elliot Lee 2001-12-20 23:50:56 UTC
It's in rawhide. That's all I can offer...


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