Yeah but the guy claiming FQDN broken is the same Lennart who seems hell bent on destroying every *nix idiom. I wouldn't go by his opinion.
Regards, Daniel On 28/07/14 09:40 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > > Am Montag, den 28.07.2014, 09:21 -0400 schrieb Daniel Dickinson: >> On 27/07/14 02:25 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> They look up a hostname using glibc. You can get the same result by >> doing hostname --fqdn and observing that there is no domain part to >> returned hostname. THIS IS BROKEN. --fqdn should *always* have a domain >> part. > > Thanks. I can reproduce it here. > > >> It is actually the local hostname that is the issue and I have actually >> tried modifying /etc/hosts with <ip-address> <name>.<domain> <name> >> however hostname --fqdn *still* returns <name> with NO <domain>. >> >> libnss-hostname is BROKEN WRT to FQDN. > > Unfortunately, the upstream author believes that programs expecting a > fully qualified domain names to exist are broken. So I guess we should > add a conflicts to affected packages. > > If this causes problems with other packages depending on > libnss-hostname, then maybe the dependency needs to be revisited. > > > BTW, what should the FQDN even be here? My laptop doesn’t have a FQDN > that resolves to it, so the concept seems to be dubious at least. > > > > Related references: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726054 > > Greetings, > Joachim > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
