[pkg-dhcp-devel] Non-udhcpc DHCP clients in d-i?

[Andrew Pollock]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 08:15:43AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Matthew Palmer (mpalmer at debian.org):
> > Does any architecture use a DHCP client other than udhcpc?  netcfg has
> > support for running dhclient and pump, but so far as I can tell (from some
> > grepping around in installer/build/pkg-lists) nobody uses that code.  I'm on
> 
> The code is probably lying there because we *were* using dhclient in
> the past.
> 
> We stopped doing so when the ISC DHCP utilities moved from v2 to v3.
> 
> A udeb is still built by isc-dhcp...but, from install/build/pkg-lists
> files, no build is using it anymore.
> 
> CC'ing ISC DHCP maintainers ("lead" by Andrew Pollock) for more
> complete advice.

I don't know anything, I just work here :-)

http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/06/msg00207.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00404.html

looks relevant.

If I can stop making a udeb, please let me know, I'd love for isc-dhcp not
to get stuck in unstable to testing transitions because it happens to make a
udeb that isn't needed any more.

regards

Andrew
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