Re: bug in hostname

[Martin MOKREJŠ]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>    Do any of you know if there is a `hostname' program that is
>    featureful and portable enough that we could simply remove hostname
>    from coreutils -- or at least stop installing it?
>
> I would strongly object to the removal of `hostname' in coreutils.  On
> GNU/Hurd it would essentially result in not having `hostname'.

I just had a look into http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools/ and
they are GNU version 2 licensed.

>
> Debian GNU/Hurd uses net-tools I belive, but this conflicts with
> inetutils.  Maybe a solution would be to move hostname into inetutils,
> where it really belongs.  What do you think?  I'll happily do the
> move.

My Gentoo box uses hostname/ifconfig from net-tools. What do you meant
"conflicts? I don't understand why should hostname move into inetutils.

Once more, why couldn't hostname be removed from coreutils? I don't know
much about Hurd, but couldnt Hurd use hostaname from net-tools too?
Is there a distribution/packaging problem or something else?

I thought we just don't want to build coreutils's hostname on boxes where
/usr/bin/hostname exists already or when the version from net-tools is know
to perform better.

Personally, if configure in coreutils would include a code to disable
hostname based on certain criteria, I would be happy with that too.

Thanks

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