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On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:54 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Sunday 04 March 2007 09:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 04 March 2007 01:49:18 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> > > I'd probably be in favour of adding virtual/dhcpc to the base profile |
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> > > too.. ;) |
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> > |
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> > Please don't do that. |
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> > If I don't have DHCP on my network, nor want it, why should I be obliged to |
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> > have it? |
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> > |
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> > While I'm on the subject, you might be able to tell me why the installation |
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> > CDs don't properly ignore DHCP when told to on the boot command line. I |
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> > always specify nodhcp, and the console log does duly say it is omitting |
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> > broadcast detection, but the syslog on vt12 later says the attempt to |
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> > detect one has timed out. This is not expected behaviour. |
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> |
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> It is a bug, |
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> |
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> Please report it. |
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Don't. |
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We're aware of it. We're also aware that we don't bother fixing older |
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releases for every bug, but rather try to ensure newer releases are as |
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bug free as possible. You can blame udev, if you like. The constantly |
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changing behavior of that package has made our lives a living hell. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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