From owner-cvs-all Tue Jun 27 6: 9:25 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8962A37BF4F; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 06:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (hak.nat.Awfulhak.org [172.31.0.12]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA54913; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:07:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA47690; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:06:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200006271306.OAA47690@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:56:10 PDT." <20000627045610.A60638@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:06:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:51:41AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > Is there any reason that the server can't be imported too ? > > It isn't needed to do an install, nor for the majority of systems. It's more needed that bootpd - and before anyone says the obvious, I don't think this is a bloat issue, it's more an out-of-the-dark-ages issue IMHO. > > With the client installed as part of FreeBSD, it confuses things > > when the isc-dhcp? port is then installed to get the server. > > Can you explain more about the confusion? I take it /usr/local is in > your path before /sbin ? The problem is that there's no way to avoid having two clients if you want a server. > > I would vote for pulling the server stuff into contrib too. > > I'd really rather dike out the client from the isc-dhcp port instead. > (for those systems that have /sbin/dhclient). That's a good alternative. > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) I'd prefer to have the server as part of the base system, but I'm not going to argue about it - a port is perfectly fine in my book :-) It'd probably be a bit of a PITA to create a server-side port though - dunno. Cheers. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message