Feature changed by: Martin Konold (konold) Feature #309504, revision 4 Title: Update dhcpcd to 5.2.2 openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Rémy Marquis (spyhawk) reject reason: too late for 11.3 Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.4: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: ron neilly (rjneilly) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Upgrade from dhcpcd v3.2.3.x, which is in openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3- Factory, to v5.2.2. It seems that we are using a very old dhcpcd that has many issues, some that won't be fixed because they are addressed in more recent releases. So why not upgrade to a current version? v5.2.2 was released on March 31, 2010. v3.2.3 was released over two years ago on Feb 25, 2008 If this can't make it into 11.3 then put on the list for 11.4 Cheers, Ron + Discussion: + #1: Martin Konold (konold) (2011-01-13 11:05:03) + Outdated 3.x is unsupported upstream and has well known bugs which will + not / cannot get resolved with 3.x. E.g. I verified that + https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657402 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657402) + is fixed in 5.x From the upstream author of dhcpcd Roy Marples: + > I only recently got dhcpcd updated in Debian to dhcpcd-5 from > + dhcpcd-3. > That involves a new package the worked alongside dhcpcd-3 + because > dhcpcd-5 now works as a single process on all interfaces. It + can still > work per interface but not 100% the same way with dhcpcd-3. + SuSE may > wish to go the same way. + The same applies to SLES11/SLED11 there also an update is needed + because the issues cannot be reasonably be fixed in 3.x. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309504