Re: CentOS install (was: udhcpd question Debian squeeze)

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:01:56AM -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
> This is quite possible the best kept secret of the Debian community. :-)

Oh heck no, not by half.  It is a bit puzzling, though - I've never
even heard of udhcpd before.

> I am not a Debian user, but have been pretty happy with Ubuntu until
> recently as newer releases have just felt "buggy".  I tried Debian as it
> seemed a close relative.  I ran "apt-get install dhcpd" and was told
> only that udhcpd would be installed as it was a replacement.  The

I've run Debian on both servers and desktops since the mid-nineties. 
Moved to Ubuntu in its early days, when it was pretty much Debian with
a desktop that (more so than Debian, and increasingly as time passed)
Just Worked.  I never have found any compelling reason to use Ubuntu on
servers...

I don't have a Squeeze machine to verify this on, but in Lenny there
doesn't seem to have been a "dhcpd" pseudo-package.  That it defaults
to installing the quirky and limited udhcpd feels like a bug to me, but
such automatic substitutions would be another reason to prefer aptitude
over apt-get... now *that* may be a well-kept secret.

> package that you mention was never mentioned, nor could I find it
> mentioned on any searches of the inter-webs.

Googled "debian dhcpd", first hit is a slightly dated how-to that uses
the old package name (used to be dhcp3-*, not certain if those are
still present as dependency-only shells in Squeeze).  Second one is a
pay-for-good-answers site, pfui.  Third (ignoring the chunk of similar
hits at the same site) is another doc that's all about dhcp3 packages.

/me shrugs.  Sometimes looking where the light is best works. :-/

> Thanks for the (belated) reply, hopefully it will help someone else
> should they run into this issue.

That's the intertubes for ya.

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