cvs commit: src/sbin/dhclient - Imported sources

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed Jun 8 17:18:53 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:02:27AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> >brooks      2005-06-07 04:05:09 UTC
> >
> >  FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >  src/sbin/dhclient - Imported sources
> >  Update of /home/ncvs/src/sbin/dhclient
> >  In directory repoman.freebsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv49480
> >
> >  Log Message:
> >  Import the OpenBSD dhclient as shipped with OpenBSD-3.7 (the tag
> >  OPENBSD_3_7).
> >
> >  Status:
> >
> >  Vendor Tag:	OPENBSD
> >  Release Tags:	dhclient_openbsd_3_7
> 
> Is there a reason this wasn't imported into src/contrib/dhclient?  Are 
> we not going to import any future updates from OpenBSD?  Having vendor 
> code in src that's not in src/contrib and src/crypto is very 
> non-intuitive as people think that stuff outside of those directories 
> is free to hack on and not regard vendor branches, etc.  If this is a 
> one-shot import that is ok I guess.

We will take some future changes from OpenBSD, but we will also be
modifying the code to suit out APIs and needs.  As such, I felt
src/sbin/dhclient was a better location because I don't want to treat it
as some untouchable gift from the gods of code the way we tend to do
with things in contrib.

-- Brooks

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