Re: should FreeBSD-dhclient depend on FreeBSD-resolvconf?
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:16:02 UTC
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.