[Bug 768171] Re: /sbin/dhclient3 remains after all dhcp3 packages purged
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Wed Sep 28 04:41:58 UTC 2011
** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Debian)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
/sbin/dhclient3 remains after all dhcp3 packages purged
Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “isc-dhcp” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in “isc-dhcp” package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
After upgrading from maverick to natty, I purged all dhcp3 packages
since they were replaced with version 4 packages:
% aptitude search '?source-package(isc-dhcp)'
p dhcp3-client - ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
p dhcp3-common - ISC DHCP common files (transitional package)
p dhcp3-dev - ISC DHCP development files (transitional package)
p dhcp3-relay - ISC DHCP relay (transitional package)
p dhcp3-server - ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
i A isc-dhcp-client - ISC DHCP client
p isc-dhcp-client-dbg - ISC DHCP client (debugging symbols)
i A isc-dhcp-common - common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
p isc-dhcp-dev - API for accessing and modifying the DHCP server and client state
p isc-dhcp-relay - ISC DHCP relay daemon
p isc-dhcp-relay-dbg - DHCP relay daemon (debugging symbols)
i isc-dhcp-server - ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment
p isc-dhcp-server-dbg - ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment (debug)
p isc-dhcp-server-ldap - DHCP server able to use LDAP as backend
However, /sbin/dhclient3 still remains, owned by the isc-dhcp-client
package:
% dpkg-query --search /sbin/dhclient3
isc-dhcp-client: /sbin/dhclient3
% file /sbin/dhclient3
/sbin/dhclient3: symbolic link to `dhclient'
I think it is wrong that isc-dhcp-client version four is providing a
dhclient3 file.
It is a problem because ifupdown first checks for dhclient3 and runs
that, using a lease directory option of /var/lib/dhcp3. This is a
problem if you remove dhcp3 directories.
Also, the Debian isc-dhcp-client package does not contain the
/sbin/dhclient3 symlink. This bug may be relevant:
http://bugs.debian.org/588203
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-15ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 21 01:52:00 2011
DhclientLeases:
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=862f0e74-6fe8-40a8-aef1-ed3aaaab5154 ro
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/sh
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
SourcePackage: isc-dhcp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-16 (5 days ago)
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