Am Montag, 11. Juli 2011, 21:15:10 schrieb davidMbrooke: > Hi, > > I am looking at updating dhcpd.lrp to add the option of IPv6 (i.e. > DHCPv6 Server) support. Right now we build dhcp.lrp from ISC DHCP 2.0pl5 > plus the -19.1 Debian patches, now more than 10 years old. > > IPv6 support was added in the ISC DHCP 4.x versions, so we need to > upgrade to at least 4.0 and ideally at least 4.1. The latest stable > upstream version is currently 4.2. > > I have some questions about how closely we should try to follow what > Debian does: > - Debian "squeeze" ships with ISC DHCP 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2 (i.e. > upstream 4.1.1-P1 with the -15+squeeze2 Debian patches. Should we > continue to apply the Debian patches or revert to the "vanilla" upstream > and remove the Debian changes? > - Debian have changed the Package name to isc-dhcp-server, presumably > to distinguish it from other software options for a DHCP server (and to > distinguish it from -relay and -client). I was already thinking that > adding an "isc" prefix was a good idea before I found that Debian had > done it. However, if we do the same then "dhcpd.lrp" will become e.g. > "isc-dhcp-server.lrp" which may confuse some users. > > Personally I think the rename is a good idea but I am not sure about the > Debian patches. What do others think?
Hi David; I don't see a benefit from renaming, but then we are not forced any longer to 8.3 names like we had for the floppy releases. I've read the changelog for isc-dhcp and the debian changelog. It seems that the debian patches are mainly backports of (security) fixes from 4.2 upstream version to 4.1. So we may have additional fetaures as well as the debian patches if we use the 4.2.x upstream version. It may also easier to maintain in the future, if we can go with the "vanilla" upstream version. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
