dhclient sucks

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:19:26PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> >Doug Barton wrote:
> >
> >>Scott Long wrote:
> >>
> >>>Part of the point of going to the new codebase was to free us from 
> >>>being locked into vendor sources that we couldn't easily change.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>It's not at all clear to me how the ISC license prevented us from 
> >>easily changing anything. There may have been other compelling reasons 
> >>to change code, but I would need this one explained in more detail to 
> >>be convinced.
> >
> >Not that it was a license issue, it was that changing and adding code
> >specific to FreeBSD would have made future vendor imports hard, just
> >like with any other vendor codebase.
> 
> So we plan to hack on what we have from openbsd now, and never import new 
> verisons?

I plan to import changes from OpenBSD, but I feel the code is small
enough that it's feasiable to both hack on the code locally and bring in
changes from OpenBSD.  IMO, that wasn't true with the ISC code.

-- Brooks

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