Re: isc-dhcpd to kea migration issue
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:28:36PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Andy Smith (HE12025-07-27):
> > How are you finding use of kea, in general? I too will have to make the
> > move at some point.
>
> Speaking for myself (but agreeing with a few friends), I say I do not
> want tu run this monster:
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> ca-certificates kea-common kea-dhcp4-server libldap-common libldap2
> liblog4cplus-2.0.5t64 libmariadb3 libpq5 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules
> libsasl2-modules-db mariadb-common mysql-common openssl
> 0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 7544 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 27.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
If it has the ability to use MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and LDAP then I
don't see how in Debian it can avoid depending upon their libraries.
Maybe it could be better to have a plugin architecture and separately
package each thing as a plugin, e.g. a hypothetical kea-ldpa-backend
that depends upon libldap2 etc., but there are reasons why some
developers don't like plugins so I'm not that surprised.
> Especially when this is available:
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> busybox udhcpd
I'll have to look in to whether it has all the features I need, but it
is a good suggestion, thanks.
Andy
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