From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 4 20:22:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F78837B403; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.5/8.11.5) with SMTP id f853LsP60182; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:21:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:21:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Murray Stokely Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c In-Reply-To: <200109042356.f84NuUk82830@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm. I think I just ran into that this morning -- installed a 5.0-CURRENT snapshot on a machine at work, and it never prompted me to use DHCP. However, I'm sure I've successfully installed that way since 1999, so maybe there's something else going on here? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Murray Stokely wrote: > murray 2001/09/04 16:56:30 PDT > > Modified files: > usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c > Log: > Revisions 1.117 and 1.118 of tcpip.c fixed the logic dealing with DHCP > and RTSOL in sysinstall. If the respective TRY_FOO variable is set to > "YES" then it will be tried without prompting the user. > > However, if the TRY_FOO variable is set to "NO" then the user will not > be prompted for a choice. This is the correct behavior, since we want > people to be able to script sysinstall in either case. > > However, the default TRY_FOO variable has been "NO" since 1999. This > is incorrect, and when the logic was corrected in tcpip.c this has the > effect of never giving the user a choice to use DHCP or IPv6. The > value should be undefined until it is set by a script or by the user. > > Submitted by: Randy Pratt, Chern Lee, many others. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.304 +1 -3 src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.c > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message