Hi All, In attempting to write a netboot-howto for netboot based sparc installs, I found that there are two packages which provide rarpd and the associated man page. These two packages are net-misc/iputils and net-misc/rarpd
Merlin, ~Kumba and I were discussing this a couple nights ago, and a few items of note came up. 1) while both rarpds provide the same functionality, they are separate programs, with each having some individual features the other doesn't. 2) net-misc/iputils is a system profile package, so if a blocking solution were used, you could never emerge net-misc/rarpd We didn't manage to come up with a way that seemed to be a clincher to solve this, but a few suggestions were; 1) Adjust the net-misc/iputils ebuild to install rarpd as iputils-rarpd 2) Remove net-misc/rarpd 3) Have the ebuilds be blocking, so they can't both be installed at the same time. As you'll note, options 2 and 3 have pretty much the same effect. So I'm throwing it out to you folks for comments/opinions/suggestions/etc Cheers, -- Jason Wever Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead
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