Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of net-misc/udhcp will break systems

2008-12-26 Thread Alec Warner 
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras  wrote:
> Not sure where to report this.  net-misc/udhcp got masked recently with
> following notice:
>
>  - net-misc/udhcp-0.9.9_pre20041216-r4 (masked by: package.mask)
>  /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
>  # Diego Pettenò  (23 Dec 2008)
>  # Mask these for removal, busybox provides those already, and are
>  # unmaintained. As requested by solar.
>
> This should NOT happen until Bug 205286 is resolved.  The current Busybox in
> portage cannot be used as a replacement for udhcp, and dhcpcd is not
> reliable for many routers (reports broken MAC address), leaving us with no
> DHCP client on Gentoo.

use the ISC client or pump?

-Alec

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[gentoo-dev] Removal of net-misc/udhcp will break systems

2008-12-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras 
Not sure where to report this.  net-misc/udhcp got masked recently with 
following notice:


  - net-misc/udhcp-0.9.9_pre20041216-r4 (masked by: package.mask)
  /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
  # Diego Pettenò  (23 Dec 2008)
  # Mask these for removal, busybox provides those already, and are
  # unmaintained. As requested by solar.

This should NOT happen until Bug 205286 is resolved.  The current 
Busybox in portage cannot be used as a replacement for udhcp, and dhcpcd 
is not reliable for many routers (reports broken MAC address), leaving 
us with no DHCP client on Gentoo.