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

[Christian PERRIER]

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.

> a mission to gut unnecessary code, and this is first on my list, as DHCP
> client handling is causing me grief.  So, speak now or forever use udhcpc. 
> <grin>


I think that pump was used in the very early days of D-I so support
for it is a remaining of the pump->dhclient transition.



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