Re: install/51214: Sysinst should add dhcpcd to rc.conf with -b flag.

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/51214; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/51214: Sysinst should add dhcpcd to rc.conf with -b flag.
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 22:49:55 +0200

 On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 08:35:00PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  I find this assertion to be quite strong and not necessarily correct.
 >  For a server, one of the first non-trivial things after boot is often
 >  ntpdate. It's about the only time when it can be done safely. Defaulting
 >  to backgrounding the network would effectively break that.
 
 For ntpdate there is an easy workaround: just use ntpd -g.
 But it is even worse for an NFS client when mount will fail "sometimes".
 
 I agree with the overall notion that we should run things in parallel
 where possible, but in this case it is not that simple as it looks at
 first sight.
 
 Also I wonder whether sysinst is the right place for it, maybe rc.conf
 defaults should be picked more intelligently, so things still work right
 when the user adds an NFS mount to /etc/fstab later.
 
 Martin