cvs commit: src/sbin/dhclient - Imported sources

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:18:52AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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.
> 
That makes sense (IMO).


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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