dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Stefano

On 04/08/2020 14:08, Stefano Cappa wrote:
> After many experiments I found only an issue with dhcpcd 9.1.4.
> If your OS doesn't have the /var/db folder, dhcpcd cannot create its folder and 
> it throws an error (see logs below).
> The result is that it doesn't assign an ipv6 address to the interface and 
> probably other issues.
>
> I fixed this creating /var/db manually, but I saw that you removed from the 
> makefile the command to create this path with this commit 
> https://github.com/rsmarples/dhcpcd/commit/5f275b7bd1ed4d1f830b7a60ba253a98f7ef6127.
> In my embedded device, in case of a minimalistic production build, /var/db 
> doesn't exist by default.
>
> Should I create this folder while building my OS or is it better that dhcpcd 
> will check the existence of /var/db before trying to create the dhcpcd folder 
> and eventually creating also /var/db path?

I've reverted that change (although github is hanging, will push there later).
https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=bb7d64877674bd90b84c18364436d26351805a7e

We no longer have the database directory inside the chroot - the chroot now 
remains empty.

Roy