Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:38:28 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf Message-ID: <20001018143828.A71470@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpog0jt78y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:47:41AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001017123911.44965C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <xzpog0jt78y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:47:41AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > David O'brien indicated that this improvement should come from the ISC > > side and be imported, rather than bumping our dhclient off the vendor > > branch. > > You could always cheat and import a patched version on the vendor branch. ONLY if the patch comes from ISC -- otherwise you turn the "vendor branch" into a farse. My stance also comes from the fact that I do not wish to maintain a DHCP client. I maintain the building and use of a DHCP client w/in FreeBSD. If I wanted to do DHCP software development, I would go join the ISC development effort. > > I believe Ted Lemon indicated that such a change would go into > > version 3 of their DHCP client. > > Yes, but when is it due, and are we willing to wait? Last I looked, there are license issues in ISC's version 3 client. Those that have issues with DHCP should pressure Ted to release a version 2.1. Send him patches that do exactly what you and, see if he won't apply them to 2.0 and then do the release engineering to make a 2.1 offering. FreeBSD cannot be the only group that has issues with the version 2 client. I also want to keep us on an industry standard. I have already rejected patches to the DHCP software that would have made us do something different from the rest of the [Unix] world. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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