On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:11:21AM -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:09:39AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/121 > > > > > > We use dhclient to get a DHCP address inside a minimal appliance. > > > To get this out of the way: NetworkManager or systemd are not options. > > > > > > It seems as if the ISC dhcp package has been EOL'd upstream: > > > > > > https://www.isc.org/dhcp/ > > > > > > I wonder what our plans are for this package, such as whether we are > > > recommending moving to dhcpcd: > > > > > > https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd > > > > > > (we package this already, as does Debian), or another suggested > > > replacement, or if another team is going to maintain the code, or if > > > we will just keep packaging the last ISC version in Fedora? > > > > Personally, I see dhcpcd is the logical option here. It's a nice and simple > > client and actively maintained. It is disconnected from any particular init > > system making it appealing for appliances and other special use cases. > > > > Given ISC dropping dhclient, we should probably be doing the same in Fedora. > > This seems like the best plan, although we should probably communicate > it somehow and find out what Fedora packages are affected. A Fedora > systemwide change maybe. NetworkManager has defaulted to it's own dhcp client by default for some time and systemd-networkd has it's own as well, I suspect actual users are quite minimal. I'm not sure if anything like cloud-init uses it but I also doubt it. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
