Hi guys, Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I think the context is relevant.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]> wrote: > This upgrade intends to fix the regression of coreutils' hostname not > being as featureful as net-tools'. > > Changes: > - coreutils: revert to not building hostname > - net-tools: revert to building hostname and dnsdomainname At the moment we do not install net-tools as part of base, but some tools rely on hostname being present. I think it's presence is actually part of FHS ("hostname: Utility to show or set the system's host name"), so a reasonable assumption I suppose. To avoid having to install net-tools (or any binaries from it). I thought this might be a good compromise: Split out "coreutils-hostname" from coreutils. This new package should conflicts=(net-tools) and be added to base. Also, net-tools should be rebuilt to add provides=(coreutils-hostname). An important point is that we then will only get a very basic hostname utility which only does the minimum required to satisfy FHS (set/get hostname). If anything more "fancy" is needed such as "hostname -f" the legacy net-tools should be installed. Thoughts, Tom
