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  1. Bug #10239
  2. Comment #50

Comment 50 for bug 10239

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In , Olaf van der Spek (olaf-xwis) wrote : Re: Bug#151820: dhcp3-client: Progress?

Andrew Pollock wrote:
>> What's 'wrong' with it?
>
> As I've said previously, I'd rather not make the downstream DHCP package
> deviate significantly in behaviour from the upstream software. I don't

Ah, I thought you didn't like the patch itself either.

> particularly like having magical strings that are interpretted differently
> to literal strings.

Good point.

 > I'd rather see it be a directive than a magical string
> that gets special treatment. According to upstream, their config parser
> can't cope with that concept though.
>
>> And what are other distributions doing?
>
> Not sure, I haven't looked. Why don't you and let me know?

I will.
Apparently Fedora is using a command line option (-H).
I don't think that's a good idea though. The conf file is the proper place.

> I suggest you lobby upstream to implement the functionality, as I have been.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=dhcp-users&m=120027890132057&w=4

I will.

Greetings,

Olaf