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has caused the Debian Bug report #855949,
regarding dhclient-script patch - allow override of default /etc/resolv.conf
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.3.5-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
By default the script dhclient-script.linux updates /etc/resolv.conf
with name servers received via DHCP. As noted in bugs #681698 and
#688864, in some cases this is not the desired action.
Also noted in the reply to bug #681698, this can be solved by
redefining the make_resolv_conf() function in a custom hook.
In some cases the desired action is to perform exactly the same
function as make_resolv_conf(), but using a different file path for
resolv.conf (while leaving the default file /etc/resolv.conf
untouched).
Duplicating make_resolv_conf() in a custom hook means updates to this
function from package upgrades will not be carried over to the custom
hook. A cleaner solution would be to allow a custom hook to simply
override the default location of resolv.conf if required.
This requires a very small change to the existing script and it would
be a useful addition to allow name server updates to be diverted away
from /etc/resolve.conf as requested in the two bugs referenced above.
This change is a minor update to the recently added fix for bug
#687337. If no custom hook defines a path for resolv.conf the script
uses exactly the same default as before this change.
A patch file for this change is attached.
---
Patch summary:
[PATCH] Allow resolv.conf path to be set by custom hook
A custom hook in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/ can now set the
path for the file which will receive name server updates from DHCP.
The default path is "/etc/resolv.conf".
---
debian/dhclient-script.linux | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
From: Doug McLaggan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:33:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow resolv.conf path to be set by custom hook
A custom hook in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/ can now set the
path for the file which will receive name server updates from DHCP.
The default path is "/etc/resolv.conf".
---
debian/dhclient-script.linux | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/dhclient-script.linux b/debian/dhclient-script.linux
index 9b0d3f8..94cabf9 100644
--- a/debian/dhclient-script.linux
+++ b/debian/dhclient-script.linux
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ make_resolv_conf() {
# DHCPv4
if [ -n "$new_domain_search" ] || [ -n "$new_domain_name" ] ||
[ -n "$new_domain_name_servers" ]; then
- resolv_conf=$(readlink -f "/etc/resolv.conf" 2>/dev/null) ||
- resolv_conf="/etc/resolv.conf"
+ if [ -z "$resolv_conf" ]; then
+ resolv_conf=$(readlink -f "/etc/resolv.conf" 2>/dev/null) ||
+ resolv_conf="/etc/resolv.conf"
+ fi
new_resolv_conf="${resolv_conf}.dhclient-new.$$"
wait_for_rw "$new_resolv_conf"
@@ -87,8 +89,10 @@ make_resolv_conf() {
mv -f $new_resolv_conf $resolv_conf
# DHCPv6
elif [ -n "$new_dhcp6_domain_search" ] || [ -n "$new_dhcp6_name_servers"
]; then
- resolv_conf=$(readlink -f "/etc/resolv.conf" 2>/dev/null) ||
- resolv_conf="/etc/resolv.conf"
+ if [ -z "$resolv_conf" ]; then
+ resolv_conf=$(readlink -f "/etc/resolv.conf" 2>/dev/null) ||
+ resolv_conf="/etc/resolv.conf"
+ fi
new_resolv_conf="${resolv_conf}.dhclient-new.$$"
wait_for_rw "$new_resolv_conf"
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Version: 4.4.3-P1-8+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544
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