Re: ipv6 and the installer

[Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>]

(sorry, moved to correct place)

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:13:41PM +0000, Justin Cormack wrote:
>> I do all my NetBSD installs in networking environments with ipv6
>> router advertisements, and I just noticed what is happening in the
>> installer (6.1.x and -current) is that when you say you want ipv4
>> autoconfiguration it actually enables ipv6 autoconf too. If you say no
>> to ipv6 autoconf after that, it actually still does the install over
>> ipv6 anyway.
>
> Right, sysinst hasn't caught up with dhcpcd features yet. I wonder if we
> should just merge the questions into "do you want autoconf?". That said,
> this should be on tech-installer or tech-userlevel.

Ah yes, looking at the dhcpcd features now. Splitting it into autoconf
or manual seems a nicer split, it makes the easy auto option really
simple, especially if you are just doing it to get the install media.

Justin