This activity has been started ~3 years ago: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/dhclient_deprecation#Dependencies and some dependencies have been cleaned up (dracut iirc) since then.
-- Pavel On Tue, May 30, 2023, at 18:14, Richard W.M. Jones 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. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > nbdkit - Flexible, fast NBD server with plugins > https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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