Hi, * Michael Prokop [Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 05:36:06PM +0200]:
> as of v21.4-2, Debian's cloud-init has a hard dependency on > isc-dhcp-client, while the isc-dhcp suite has been deprecated by the > ISC (also see e.g. > https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#deprecated-components). > > This makes integration/usage of cloud-init with e.g. dhcpcd > impossible: > > | # apt install cloud-init dhcpcd > | Reading package lists... Done > | Building dependency tree... Done > | Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > | requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > | distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > | or been moved out of Incoming. > | The following information may help to resolve the situation: > | > | The following packages have unmet dependencies: > | dhcpcd-base : Conflicts: dhcp-client > | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Sorry, forgot to clarify: the `apt install cloud-init dhcpcd` from above doesn't work on Debian <=bookworm, while on >= trixie it works, because dhcpcd-base no longer conflicts with dhcp-client, as it used to do up and until bookworm: | root@f50263b65142:/# apt-get install dhcpcd isc-dhcp-client 2>&1 | tail -3 | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | dhcpcd-base : Conflicts: dhcp-client | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. | root@f50263b65142:/# apt-cache show dhcpcd-base | grep Conflicts | Conflicts: dhcp-client > Quoting from > https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/releases/tag/23.3, > cloud-init doesn't seem to strictly depend on isc-dhcp-client any > longer though: > > | network: support busybox micro DHCP client (udhcpc) alternative to > | deprecated isc-dhcp-client. > > So while one can install udhcpc next to isc-dhcp-client in > Debian (because they don't conflict with each other), it's > not yet possible to use Debian with cloud-init, without having > also isc-dhcp-client on the system. > > Please consider adapting the Depends for the new cloud-init version > in Debian accordingly, so one can use e.g. cloud-init with udhcpc > (which also allows co-installation next to dhcpcd), but without > having to also have isc-dhcp-client present. While this request still stands of course, to actually get rid of isc-dhcp-client (at least with >=trixie). :) regards -mika-
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