On Mon, 2024-04-15 at 10:44 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:46:39AM +0200, Lukáš Nykrýn wrote:
Just for record, the removal of network-scripts was done because https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/dhclient_deprecation
That page has Category:ChangePageIncomplete. dhcp-client is present in F40, even though it has Provides:deprecated().
Network-scripts heavily depend on dhclient and there is no plan to rework them to use a different dhcp implementation.
Ack. So it sounds like we could keep using both in F40 and prepare for removal in F41.
There are various uses of the service that do not need a DHCP client, like the one I referred to in the bug report and FESCo ticket. Heck, you can kinda *assume* anyone still using the service at this point is doing something weird with it, not just a 'normal' "bring up this interface for me with DHCP" kinda thing.
The removal of the network service should still be treated as its own significant operation, not a natural consequence of the removal of dhclient.