On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:18:02PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 05:29:06PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Following discussions between a few of us on IRC and private emails, > >> we decided to remove the hostname binary from the net-tools package > >> and to replace it by the one from inetutils. Unlike the hostname from > >> coreutils, the inetutils hostname has all the functionnality of the > >> net-tools' one. I've also added scripts which implements the behaviour > >> of the domainname and dnsdomainname symlinks that were in the > >> net-tools package so everything should work as before. If not, let us > >> know. I've also added inetutils to the base group as many apps expect > >> hostname to be installed (I think its also a standard). > >> > >> The net-tools package also had other changes as followed: > >> > >> - update to current upstream cvs > >> - remove hostname (and the symlinks to it, dnsdomain and domainname) > >> as well as manpages related to it > >> - changed license to gpl2 > >> - removed !makeflags from options (seems to work fine without it, > >> except for some extra compile time warnings). > >> > >> > >> > >> Eric > > > > Two minor nitpicks about the wrapper scripts: > > > > 1) It would probably be worthwhile to hardcode the path to the inetutils > > hostname binary. > > 2) exec $path/hostname, in both cases, will save an extra fork in > > invocation. > > > > Also, do we want to add manpage symlinks for {dns,}domainname? It's not > > entirely the truth, so I'm not convinced we want this. > > > > dave > > > > I could do these 2 changes to the scripts. The current net-tools in > core has {dns,}domainname man pages symlinks to hostname so I guess we > might as well add them. I'll wait for more opinions before doing these > changes in case there's another issue. > > Eric
I'm also a little curious what happened to the whole idea of having a 'hostname' provider. We've (again) broken all tools that quietly depend on a hostname binary and were "fixed" to depend on net-tools. First of what could be many: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25681 dave
