#3320 Issue open: Check sourcing via '.' in DHCP client support code¶

Labels: discuss / RFC

jsmeix opened issue at 2024-09-17 09:26:¶

See
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3319#issuecomment-2355010955
(excerpts)

usr/share/rear/skel/default/bin/dhclient-script and
usr/share/rear/skel/default/etc/scripts/dhcp-setup-functions.sh
originate from
https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/38d5bd280654dd4e05a8a408daad8e08925c3ab0

...

I guess that also
usr/share/rear/skel/default/bin/dhclient-script and
usr/share/rear/skel/default/etc/scripts/dhcp-setup-functions.sh
came from Fedora at the time of that commit
i.e. on Dec 10, 2010

On the one hand this indicates that this code in ReaR
could be OK (because we may assume Fedora code is OK).

On the other hand this code in ReaR is rather old
(more than 13 years meanwhile) and I assume
possible (security) bug fixes at Fedora
were not backported into ReaR.

So this code in ReaR should be checked if it is considered
to be still sufficiently OK for what ReaR needs
(DHCP client support in the ReaR recovery system)

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