[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#673677: Bug#673677: isc-dhcp-server: provide a way to _not_ run the server

[Andrew Pollock]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:09:25PM +0200, David Madore wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:41:52AM -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:39:41PM +0200, David Madore wrote:
> > >							     The best I
> > > found was adding "exit 0" inside /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server but
> > > that's a hack.
> > 
> > Did you consider putting "exit 0" in /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server?
> 
> As the above quote shows, yes. ;-)

Reading comprehension fail :-)
 
> I was mostly concerned that some other package might, for whatever
> reason, want to read the DHCP server's config, and die because of
> that; I admit it's not highly likely.  Also, I think it's ugly having
> something like "exit 0" in a file supposed to contain only key=value
> lines.  But as an interim measure, it's fine.  (That's why I marked
> the bug as "minor".  But I still think it's worth fixing eventually.)

I agree completely. I'll fix this in an upload of 4.2.4, when it comes out.
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