Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

[David Young <dyoung%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 10:57:29PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> A DHCP _server_ (or relay) isn't necessary for the kind of system
> integration that justifies the maintenance burden of having it in the
> base system -- unlike say, a DHCP _client_, which is needed to get
> connected to the network and download packages in the first place.

Would this change leave NetBSD without a cross-buildable DHCP server?

Back when I built routers with NetBSD, it was beautiful how I could
cross-build a system image that had a DHCP client and server in it with
just one build.sh invocation.  To this day embedded systems do not
ordinarily have an "on-line" installation and fetching packages is not
part of the flow, so I don't see that as a fallback.

Back then, pkgsrc was not cross-buildable.  Maybe it is, now?

David

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