Re: dhcp client support broken on karmic with latest NM build

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 08:02 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Saturday 27 of February 2010 02:23:10 Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:30 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 of February 2010 22:53:59 Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > 3) Set the 'dhcp' property in the [main] section of
> > > > nm-system-settings.conf to either "dhclient" or "dhcpcd"
> > > 
> > > I must be completely stupid but I cannot find it in current sources
> > > (upstream GIT, tree corresponds to 0.8 tag). Is it in some distro-
> > > specific patches?
> > 
> > It goes like this:
> > 
> 
> I am sorry if I was unclear. I understand how it *should* work. But I 
> just do not see how it can possibly do it without extra patches:
> 
> {pts/0}% git show 0.8:src/dhcp-manager/Makefile.am
> ...
> libdhcp_manager_la_SOURCES = \
>         nm-dhcp-manager.c \
>         nm-dhcp-manager.h \
>         nm-dhcp- DHCP_CLIENT@.c
> 
> So there no way for NM to include both dhclient and dhcpd.
> 
> Oh, and there are no options --with-dhclient or --with-dhcpd at all - 
> there is only option --with-dhcp-client=[dhclient|dhcpd]
> 
> So still the same question - is it some distro-specific patch?

Hmm; right you are.  It appears that the original post was actually an
error for DHCPv4, not DHCPv6, while the post that I responded to
mentioned both IPv4 and IPv6.  So I'm not entirely sure what was going
on there now.

Dan