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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/51214: Sysinst should add dhcpcd to rc.conf with -b flag.
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 17:05:17 -0400

 On Jun 3, 10:32pm, joerg%bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: install/51214: Sysinst should add dhcpcd to rc.conf with -b f
 
 | On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 08:20:00PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
 | > dhcpcd in this form will block boot, wasting time for no reason.
 | 
 | 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.
 
 Absolutely right here. Make that change and all the networking daemons
 that expect to find an address at boot will fail. There are many daemons
 that will not even rescan the interface list when it acquires a new
 address. It is time we fixed them, perhaps designing some API that would
 help with some tasks.
 
 christos