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Hi All, |
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In attempting to write a netboot-howto for netboot based sparc |
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installs, I found that there are two packages which provide rarpd and the |
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associated man page. These two packages are net-misc/iputils and |
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net-misc/rarpd |
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Merlin, ~Kumba and I were discussing this a couple nights ago, and a few |
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items of note came up. |
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1) while both rarpds provide the same functionality, they are separate |
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programs, with each having some individual features the other doesn't. |
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2) net-misc/iputils is a system profile package, so if a blocking solution |
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were used, you could never emerge net-misc/rarpd |
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We didn't manage to come up with a way that seemed to be a clincher to |
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solve this, but a few suggestions were; |
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1) Adjust the net-misc/iputils ebuild to install rarpd as iputils-rarpd |
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2) Remove net-misc/rarpd |
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3) Have the ebuilds be blocking, so they can't both be installed at the |
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same time. |
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As you'll note, options 2 and 3 have pretty much the same effect. |
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So I'm throwing it out to you folks for |
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comments/opinions/suggestions/etc |
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Cheers, |
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Jason Wever |
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Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead |
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