Comment 51 for bug 10239

Andrew Pollock wrote:
> As I've said previously, I'd rather not make the downstream DHCP package
> deviate significantly in behaviour from the upstream software. I don't
> particularly like having magical strings that are interpretted differently
> to literal strings. I'd rather see it be a directive than a magical string
> that gets special treatment. According to upstream, their config parser
> can't cope with that concept though.
>
>> And what are other distributions doing?
>
> Not sure, I haven't looked. Why don't you and let me know?
>
> I suggest you lobby upstream to implement the functionality, as I have been.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=dhcp-users&m=120027890132057&w=4

Upstream appears to prefer a solution that accepts the pipe output of
applications for values in the conf file.
Such a solution doesn't exist yet, so I think it's best to apply the
Ubuntu patch until there's a better solution.

Greetings,

Olaf