FAI roadmap

[Michael Tautschnig]

Hi Thomas, hi everyone,

I've added the proposed patch in r5865, it's in experimental/patches/dhcp-transition.

[...]
> 
>     > Well, honestly, there are more uses of dhcp3: The FAI Guide refers to this path
>     > and the simple example also ship a dhcpd.conf in that directory. But switching
>     > over to /etc/dhcp should be just fine, it shouldn't break any existing installs.
> Yep, the simple examples have to check for the right directory.
> 

[...]

The only thing I did not yet fix in the patch is the simple example. The
foremost reason for not doing os is that moving directories is hard to
accomplish with patches - we should just do this in trunk once we agree on the
way to go. I'd see at least two options:

- Just move over to /etc/dhcp, assuming that most people new to FAI (and these
  are the ones using the simple example, I guess) will only use squeeze or
  later. That means moving the files/etc/dhcp3 directory in SVN and adapting
  paths as necessary, just grep for dhcp3.
- Ship both files/etc/dhcp3 and files/etc/dhcp and put some logic in the scripts
  that fcopy the files to check for which one to choose. That means copying the
  directory in SVN and, again, just grep for dhcp3.

[...]
> 
>     > It's
>     > such a small issue only and we've probably spend more time discussing it (and
>     > possible consequences) than it would have taken to fix it in the first place.
> ACK. But until now I did not had the time to care about this. But I
> told everybody that I will work on FAI during Debcamp next week.
> 

Sure - but the DHCP issue wasn't/isn't on your roadmap. But if you accept the
proposed patch it needn't go there, it's done already :-)

Best,
Michael

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