Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-19 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 14/08/14 18:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Now, I think there are several questions to answer: 1. What were the reasons for having arch-dependent dhcp clients? I'd speculate because udhcpc from busybox is very small, and isc-dhcp-client-udeb was about 2 MiB. It targets (currently only builds

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-20): On 14/08/14 18:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Now, I think there are several questions to answer: 1. What were the reasons for having arch-dependent dhcp clients? I'd speculate because udhcpc from busybox is very small, and

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-19 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-20): On 14/08/14 18:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Now, I think there are several questions to answer: 1. What were the reasons for having arch-dependent dhcp clients? I'd speculate because

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:05:47PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 13/08/14 18:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: What I'd like to get figured out is what changed between images that weren't hitting this problem, and the newly published ones. What changed is dhclient from isc-dhcp-client-udeb

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-13): On 13/08/14 18:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: What I'd like to get figured out is what changed between images that weren't hitting this problem, and the newly published ones. What changed is dhclient from isc-dhcp-client-udeb gained a

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-14 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 07:32:22PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Now, I think there are several questions to answer: 1. What were the reasons for having arch-dependent dhcp clients? 2. Are those reasons still valid? = Maybe think about moving to a single client if possible, at least

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 13/08/14 02:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: So, using debian-jessie-DI-b1-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso with DHCP, an error is shown right after the mirror selection, since network configuration obtained through DHCP is lost at this point. It would be nice to make sure what triggered this issue

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-13): On 13/08/14 02:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: So, using debian-jessie-DI-b1-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso with DHCP, an error is shown right after the mirror selection, since network configuration obtained through DHCP is lost at this point. It

Bug#757711: Bug#757988: kfreebsd: troubles with dhcp (configuration going away)

2014-08-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 13/08/14 18:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: What I'd like to get figured out is what changed between images that weren't hitting this problem, and the newly published ones. What changed is dhclient from isc-dhcp-client-udeb gained a signal handler that responds to SIGKILL by releasing the DHCP