reopen 533302
thanks

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Excerpts from Andrew Pollock's message of Fri Oct 16 22:52:04 +0200 2009:
> > I've just had a look at it. It's not a bug, it's working as intended. The
> > prepend directive allows you to override DHCP *in their entirety*. If you
> > use it, you need to stipulate what the entire option should contain. It
> > doesn't let you prepend part of a value into an option's data.
> Uhm, that seems a big strange to me. First of all, it is not intuitive at all
> to call that option prepend, if it behaves like you just said. Secondly, I
> want to quote the manpage:
> 
> ---
> 
> If  for  some option the client should always use a locally-configured value 
> or
> values rather than whatever is supplied by the server, these values can be
> defined in the supersede statement.
> 
> If for some set of options the client should use a value you supply, and then
> use the values supplied by the server, if any, these values can be defined in
> the prepend statement.
> 
> ---
> 
> Is the manpage utterly wrong?

No, you're absolutely correct, I had supersede and prepend confused in my
mind.

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