Comment 8 for bug 1717983
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| Scott Moser (smoser) wrote Re: [Bug 1717983] Re: replacement of isc-dhcp-client with with systemd-networkd for dhclient needs integration | #8 |
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I opened bug 1718227. for packages that ship if-up.d or if-down.d scripts.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Steve Langasek <
<email address hidden>> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:09:24PM -0000, Scott Moser wrote:
> > "I don't know.... I don't think.." doesnt really seem like valid
> > justification for marking Invalid on avahi. I went looking a bit
> > further. I'm not exactly sure why it ties into dhcp hooks, but it also
> > ties into ifupdown hooks.
>
> Ok, so alternate rationale: avahi-autoipd is a service that is primarily
> of
> interest to mobile client systems, not to servers. The ifupdown->networkd
> transition only affects servers. On client systems, we will continue to
> use
> NetworkManager, which for the past 9 years has not been running the
> dhclient
> hooks:
>
> https:/
>
> And no one has complained in that time about misbehavior of avahi as a
> result of these particular hooks not being run. Therefore, whatever the
> reason these undocumented upstream hooks were added, I don't believe they
> matter for the ifupdown->systemd transition.
>
> If you prefer to express this as 'wontfix' or 'triaged'
> mind. But in terms of prioritization, I don't consider it important to
> follow through any further on the avahi dhclient hooks.
>
> > Should I raise another of these bugs for programs that ship ifupdown
> hooks ?
> > /etc/network/
>
> I think that's reasonable. But please note that networkd simply does not
> support these kinds of hooks today (in particular it does not support
> if-pre-up.d and if-down.d because these hooks must block networkd; you can
> implement if-up.d and if-post-down.d by running /after/ the network
> events).
> The decision to migrate to networkd has been taken in full knowledge that,
> at least initially, there would be regressions in these kinds of
> integrations.
>
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> Title:
> replacement of isc-dhcp-client with with systemd-networkd for dhclient
> needs integration
>
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