Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:24:12 -0400 From: Matteo Riondato <matteo@FreeBSD.org> To: Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>, current@freebsd.org, pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should FreeBSD-dhclient depend on FreeBSD-resolvconf? Message-ID: <43B68BB6-02FA-470E-A8C5-99D15E3707D7@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <aO-QglIdge2VetmF@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <324231230.147694.1760527890049@localhost> <aO-QglIdge2VetmF@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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> On Oct 15, 2025, at 8:16 AM, Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Ronald Klop wrote in <324231230.147694.1760527890049@localhost>: >> Yesterday I installed a 15-BETA1 jail using pkgbase >> FreeBSD-set-minimal-jail. I was missing FreeBSD-dhclient which is >> fine and I installed it. Then it didn't have DNS as FreeBSD-resolvconf >> was missing. I understand that theoretically dhclient can operate >> without resolvconf, but in practice they seem pretty useful together. >> >> Should FreeBSD-dhclient depend on FreeBSD-resolvconf? > > dhclient should depend on resolvconf and i will fix this. > > i am curious how widespread dhclient use in jails is. should we add > dhclient to set-minimal-jail? > > NB, "set-minimal-jail" is not intended to be the smallest possible set > of packages for a jail; it's meant to be "minimal" (the basic base system) > for jails. so if dhclient use in jails is widespread, we should probably > add it to minimal-jail. So does “minimal” really mean “typical”? That’s going to be confusing, TBH (compare, e.g., with the MINIMAL kernel config file). Thanks, Matteohelp
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