Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Roy Marples writes: > On 21/06/2018 16:19, Julian Coleman wrote: >>> The release of NetBSD-8 is probably imminent, now is probably the best time >>> to do this. >> >> Will it suprise people that dhclient has gone from base? Maybe deprecate it >> in the 8.0 release notes and remove it from curre

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 04:12:32PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > > The release of NetBSD-8 is probably imminent, now is probably the best time > to do this. I would favor removing dhclient from base for NetBSD-8, even at this late date. Thor

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 05:19:32PM +0200, Julian Coleman wrote: > Hi, > > > The release of NetBSD-8 is probably imminent, now is probably the best time > > to do this. > > Will it suprise people that dhclient has gone from base? Maybe deprecate it > in the 8.0 release notes and remove it from cu

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Roy Marples
On 21/06/2018 18:22, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: Roy Marples wrote: Could dhcpcd behave as dhclient when argv{0] is dhclient? That way we could hardlink dhclient to dhcpcd and remove it while no user would get surprised by the change. That wouldn't be great. At lot of installations would use

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
Roy Marples wrote: > > Could dhcpcd behave as dhclient when argv{0] is dhclient? That way > > we could hardlink dhclient to dhcpcd and remove it while no user > > would get surprised by the change. > > That wouldn't be great. At lot of installations would use the -cf option > to specify a config

Re: CVS commit: src/external/mpl/dhcp

2018-06-21 Thread maya
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:42:17AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Paul Goyette writes: > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > > >> Module Name: src > >> Committed By: kamil > >> Date: Thu Jun 21 11:02:48 UTC 2018 > >> > >> Modified Files: > >>src/extern

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Roy Marples
On 21/06/2018 16:19, Julian Coleman wrote: The release of NetBSD-8 is probably imminent, now is probably the best time to do this. Will it suprise people that dhclient has gone from base? Maybe deprecate it in the 8.0 release notes and remove it from current? Or, is that what you meant? How

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Roy Marples
On 21/06/2018 16:42, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 04:12:32PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: So if anyone has any really good reasons to keep dhclient around, now is the time to discuss them. I've added and supported every request in dhcpcd that anyone here as ever asked. Could dh

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 04:12:32PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > So if anyone has any really good reasons to keep dhclient around, now is the > time to discuss them. I've added and supported every request in dhcpcd that > anyone here as ever asked. Could dhcpcd behave as dhclient when argv{0] is dhc

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Jaromír Doleček
2018-06-21 17:19 GMT+02:00 Julian Coleman : > Maybe deprecate it > in the 8.0 release notes and remove it from current? +1 to this Jaromir

Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Julian Coleman
Hi, > The release of NetBSD-8 is probably imminent, now is probably the best time > to do this. Will it suprise people that dhclient has gone from base? Maybe deprecate it in the 8.0 release notes and remove it from current? Or, is that what you meant? Regards, Julian

Remove dhclient(8) from base

2018-06-21 Thread Roy Marples
On 21/06/2018 14:42, Greg Troxel wrote: I'm not following this but something seems strange. Are you really saying that a program that is in /sbin will not work with /usr not mounted? That seems quite broken; the whole point of /sbin being separate from /usr/sbin was always that things would wor

Re: CVS commit: src/external/mpl/dhcp

2018-06-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Paul Goyette writes: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > >> Module Name: src >> Committed By:kamil >> Date:Thu Jun 21 11:02:48 UTC 2018 >> >> Modified Files: >> src/external/mpl/dhcp: Makefile.inc >> >> Log Message: >> Make building of dhcp compatible wi