[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dhcpcd 4.0.1-2

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 08:14:54 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh at gmail.com> wrote:
> please signoff for both architectures.
>
> # changes wrt to dhcpcd3 series:
> August 2008 sees the first release of dhcpcd-4. The new version moves
> all configuration to /libexec/dhcpcd-run-hooks,

Is this the case in our package? We never use libexec in Arch, so I
think we need to do something here.

> apart from interface
> address and routing. We also use the same variables as dhclient which
> means existing custom scripts for dhclient can readily work with
> dhcpcd with minimal tweaking. Also, the dhcpcd internals have been
> re-worked around a table setup to extract options directly from the
> DHCP message instead of populating a custom object and dealing with
> that. Finally, NetworkManager-0.7.0 works with dhcpcd-4 when built
> with --with-dhcp-client=dhcpcd. NetBSD -current (4.99.72) imports
> dhcpcd-4.0.0-rc4 into their base system Smiling
>
> the hooks file location are changed to /usr/libexec in the package.
>
> Ronald
>



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