On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:01:18 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > Hi
Hello Roy, > I'm upstream for dhcpcd and have recently installed Ubuntu on one of my > machines and as such have a vested interest and now the means of using > my software on a Debian based system. I have packages prepared for > dhcpcd, dhcpcd-dbus and dhcpcd-gtk already and will work on one for > openresolv (resolvconf implementation) later today. That's great -- I'll need dhcpcd-dbus for future versions of wicd, that's why I have an ITP open (#563974), which is blocked by this bug. > This provides a light weight alternative to NetworkManager or WICD. Oh, well :) > The only big issue that I see with people upgrading are moving > configuration from /etc/default/dhcpcd to native dhcpcd > in /etc/dhcpcd.conf and existing /etc/network/interfaces inet dhcp lines > conflicting with dhcpcd running in master mode via its own init.d > script. The script cannot run before networking as it needs the loopback > interface and possibly wpa_supplicant started which would solve the > problem. One solution would be to sed /etc/network/interfaces and > comment these lines out. If I understood the problem correctly, can't you solve this with a proper LSB header [0] in your initscript? > Can I prevent the init.d/dhcpcd script from being started/stopped on > package upgrade/downgrade/removal/install? If you're using dh_installinit (or dh7), you can pass --no-start to it. See dh_installinit(1). > Where can I post these packages for review? You can register to http://mentors.debian.net , and follow the instructions there. Or upload your .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz / .debian.tar.gz and .dsc somewhere on the net. However, as Simon suggests in [1], maybe it's better to keep dhcpcd at version 3, since it's used by lots of people out there, and make a new dhcpcd5 package. This would let us (Debian) handle the transition gracefully, i.e. people wanting to upgrade to version 5 know what they're doing, and bugs will be filed there. We'll still have a rock-solid version (dhcpcd 3), which will eventually be replaced by dhcpcd5. Roy, do you think this is ok? Kindly, David [0] http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551034#34 -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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