At 12:46 PM -0700 5/11/01, David Whedon wrote:
>Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:56:34PM -0500 wrote:
> > The next major stumbling block I ran into was that pump doesn't work
> > (bts# 94176). Pump has annoyed me for a number of reasons including
> > bts#64092 and its kin. I think there was some discussion some time ago
> > about perhaps using dhcp-client. So I hacked dhcp-client to work. It
> > works very well. The downside is that dhcp-client takes up a bit more
> > space than pump: 137930 (more if kernel 2.0 support is required) vs.
>I don't think we need to directly support 2.0.x on boot-floppies, though if we
>decide not to we should make a note in the docs that dhcp won't work if you
>replace the kernel with a 2.0 serias.
>
> > 58112. It's easy enough to #def this into/out of dbootstrap, but not
> > quite so trivial to maintain both versions of the EXTRACT files. Let me
> > know if you want the patch, even if just for dbootstrap.
>I've got an idea. Why don't we use dhcp-client-udeb? It is destined for use
>with debian-installer and is a bit smaller than the .deb:
>ruff:davidw$ dpkg -c dhcp-client-udeb_2.0pl5-5_i386.udeb
>drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-11 12:38:14 ./
>drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-11 12:38:11 ./sbin/
>-rwxr-xr-x root/root 107356 2001-05-11 12:38:11 ./sbin/dhclient
>drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-05-11 12:38:08 ./etc/
>-rwxr-xr-x root/root 5816 2001-05-11 12:38:08 ./etc/dhclient-script
>ruff:davidw$
>
>The udeb already exists in the archive, the only thing to do would
>be to modify
>the apt magic so it looks for it. Saves us a little space, and a lot of people
>complain about pump.
Sounds like a good plan. /sbin/dhclient in the deb is a script that
calls either dhclient-2.2.x or dhclient-2.0.x depending on uname -r.
I just dropped dhclient-2.0.x and dhclient from the EXTRACT lists. I
wonder if dhclient-2.2.x is renamed dhclient in the udeb? I suppose
I'll just have to see.
Should I fix dbootstrap to look for dhclient and failing that pump?
That would give us more flexibility and it shouldn't be hard to do.
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