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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of net-misc/udhcp will break systems
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:36:37
Message-Id: b41005390812261036o27cc73d7p48e489a3bd4a7d15@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Removal of net-misc/udhcp will break systems by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > Not sure where to report this. net-misc/udhcp got masked recently with
3 > following notice:
4 >
5 > - net-misc/udhcp-0.9.9_pre20041216-r4 (masked by: package.mask)
6 > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
7 > # Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@g.o> (23 Dec 2008)
8 > # Mask these for removal, busybox provides those already, and are
9 > # unmaintained. As requested by solar.
10 >
11 > This should NOT happen until Bug 205286 is resolved. The current Busybox in
12 > portage cannot be used as a replacement for udhcp, and dhcpcd is not
13 > reliable for many routers (reports broken MAC address), leaving us with no
14 > DHCP client on Gentoo.
15
16 use the ISC client or pump?
17
18 -Alec
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