Re: rtsol

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 21/10/2014 15:15, Robert Swindells wrote:
> Roy Marples wrote:
>> On 21/10/2014 14:06, Alan Barrett wrote:
>>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Roy Marples wrote:
>>>>> I just followed the suggestion in the new rtsol man page.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think users are going to get bitten by this when upgrading to
>>>>> NetBSD-7.
>>>>
>>>> The example in the man page is just for testing purposes
>>>
>>> Please could we have documentation for what people need to change in all
>>> the common cases of migrating from a system with rtsol and rtsold, to a
>>> system without them.
>>
>> In rc.conf
>> dhcpcd=YES
>>
>> This is the intent stated in the 1st paragraph of the man page.
>> You are also advised to enable dhcpcd if you have rtsol configured when
>> running rc.d/network.
> 
> Somebody already using DHCP on their network wouldn't need to add
> dhcpcd=YES to rc.conf.

That's right, and using the default config with dhcpcd enabled they
wouldn't need to change a thing.

> I think we need better documentation for how to migrate from just
> using rtsol.

Care to provide some?
I've done my best and I think it's good enough. You don't so instead of
us going around in circles I feel that you're better placed than me.

Roy