On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 05:06:20PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm resubmitting my work of migrating to iproute2 from net-tools at Tom's > > request. It's pretty much the same, but with the feedback from Dan, I've > > added > > some extremely simple deprecation logic to yell at the user when he or she > > is > > still using the net-tools variables. > > Thanks! This is very much appreciated! > > > - yp-tools is currently in extra. we would need to bring this into core in > > order > > to support setting a domainname, and remove the symlinks to hostname from > > the > > net-tools package. > > Question: What is the use-case of setting the domainname in the > absence of yp-tools? Is this common? Would it be acceptable to keep > yp-tools in extra? (I wouldn't be opposed moving it to core, I'd just > like to understand the reasons). > > Maybe you should get in touch wit the net-tools/yp-tools/coreutils > maintainers (whoever they are) to get their sign-off's on this? > > Cheers, > > Tom
I don't know of a use case for setting domainname without the need for the other facilities yp-tools provides. If you need a DNS search domain, you can set that in /etc/resolv.conf. I've CC'd Allan (coreutils) and Gaetan (yp-tools) on this email. I've linked in Patch 0/2 [1] in case they aren't subscribed to the list. d [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2011-May/000863.html
