Re: dhcpcd is gone on Jessie, which DHCP client is recommended for Jessie Debian AMIs?

On 5 August 2014 15:39, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> wrote:

❦ 5 août 2014 22:56 +0200, Tomasz Rybak <tomasz.rybak@post.pl> :

>> I'm testing bootstrap-vz and it would like to install dhcpcd but it is
>> not present on Jessie.
>> isc-dhcp-client and isc-dhcp-common are intentionally excluded during
>> bootstrapping and our wiki also recommends avoiding them:
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/CreateEC2Image
>>
>> Which DHCP client is packaged and known to work in Jessie?
>
> dhcpcd5.
> This is known problem and is fixed in development branch
> of bootstrap-vz. Fix was in PR #118:
> https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz/pull/118

Why is isc-dhcp-client not recommended?
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> Why is isc-dhcp-client not recommended?

It's not a matter of recommendation, it's that it plain doesn't work. This has been with bootstrap-vz from waaay back when camptocamp used to maintain ec2debian-build-ami (commit by Christian Kaenzig). I successfully verified this a year ago. You are welcom to try running it with isc-dhcp-client, if it works with jessie I'll gladly accept a PR fixing it.

Anders

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