Changeset 690658a5

Timestamp:

02/19/2014 09:52:39 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

4e047ca4

Parents:

6392ac9

Message:

Update dhcpcd instructions so that the lease is persistent across
reboots, and add a "command explanations" section

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@12741 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• networking/connect/dhcpcd.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

networking/connect/dhcpcd.xml

@@ -73 +73 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --libexecdir=/lib/dhcpcd \
-            --dbdir=/run             \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc &amp;&amp;
+            --dbdir=/var/tmp         &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -83 +82 @@
 <screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
 
+<!--
     <para>By default, a plain text lease info file isn't created but the
     <application>dhcpcd</application> provides a hook which can be used for creating
@@ -90 +90 @@
 <screen role='root'><userinput>sed -i "s;/var/lib;/run;g" dhcpcd-hooks/50-dhcpcd-compat &amp;&amp;
 install -v -m 644 dhcpcd-hooks/50-dhcpcd-compat /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/</userinput></screen>
-
+-->
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="commands">
+    <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <parameter>--libexecdir=/lib/dhcpcd</parameter>: The default
+      <filename class="directory">/libexec</filename> is not FHS-compliant.
+      Since this directory may need to be available early in the boot,
+      <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename> cannot be used either.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <parameter>--dbdir=/var/tmp</parameter>: The default
+      <filename class="directory">/var/lib</filename> is not FHS-compliant
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <option>--with-hook=...</option>: You can optionally install more hooks,
+      for example to install some configuration files such as
+      <filename>ntp.conf</filename>. The set of hooks is in the
+      <filename class="directory">dhcpcd-hooks</filename> directory in the
+      build tree.
+    </para>
   </sect2>