Hi, I think that the current hostname setting of $MACHINE (unless you override base-files and change $hostname there) is too restrictive. Distributions should be able to override it easily (i.e. adding a distro-specific prefix) and individuals should also be able to change it in local.conf (i.e. assigning a real-world name, i.e. beagle or zbox).
My proposal would be to add something like HOSTNAME ?= "$MACHINE" to default-distrovars.inc, and changing base-files to write the hostname file in a new task using something like addtask hostname after do_rootfs. This is entirely untested but opinions (especially "you're wrong" or "there's a better way") welcome. Ross _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
