removal of dhcpv6 package from Fedora

J. Randall Owens jrowens.fedora at ghiapet.net
Sat Sep 19 00:42:00 UTC 2009


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On 09/18/2009 05:25 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
> If you do not care about IPv6, feel free to stop reading now.
> 
> I would like to remove the dhcpv6 package from Fedora as the current dhcp
> package is now providing DHCPv6 protocol support for both the client,
> server,
> and relay.  ISC has finally surpassed what the dhcpv6 package was providing
> and, frankly, I have no desire to continue working on the dhcpv6 at this
> point.
> 
> Does anyone care?  If not, I will be marking it as a dead.package per our
> package removal procedure.  The dhclient package will grow the necessary
> Provides/Obsoletes for the former dhcpv6-client package and the dhcp
> package
> will grow the necessary Provides/Obsoletes for the former dhcpv6 package.

On a related note, I'd been meaning to inquire about and/or suggest ways to get
ISC's dhcpd working for both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously.  Do you have one way
or another of doing this yet?  That was the only thing that had me using dhcp6s
for a short time.

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