PSARC 2009/285 DHCP Client Updates

[James Carlson]

Bart Smaalders writes:
> So you're intending this for OpenSolaris, but you're not exploring the
> affect of your change on those users?

No ... I just haven't been able to do that yet, and there are no files
in ON that control the behavior, and (as far as I know) I have no
reasonable way to make my own modified repository.  My plan was (a) to
ask the local OpenSolaris experts when I next had a chance [likely the
start of next week] and (b) to document appropriately whatever the
results were well in advance of any possible OpenSolaris availability.

However, I have no plan to contribute special code to OpenSolaris to
handle the i.dhcpagent logic.  That's an existing class-action script
that I'm only updating in a fairly minor way.  If someone on the
OpenSolaris team wants to figure those scripts out, that'd be great,
but I don't think it ought to be my responsibility to do so.

I'd expect that things will likely get a lot easier to manage once
OpenSolaris integrates.

> If the user has made no changes to this file (assumed editable), he'll
> get the new version.  If he has made changes, he'll keep the old version.

Great.  Either the old or the new version will work fine.  As I noted,
the changes are essentially comments.  The tradition here (in SysV
packaging) is to massage the comments on each update.

The only non-comment change is the RELEASE_ON_SIGTERM flag, and the
file will still be valid and still produce expected results without
applying that change.  Users who want the new functionality will be
forced (due to the lack of class-action script support) to change the
variable on their own.  Otherwise, if they change nothing, they'll
still get the old behavior for that one flag.

Essentially, you're saying that it behaves like a patch, and that
seems fine.

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