Hi Eric, On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, inetutils also could provide a hostname and even an ifconfig > binary. They are currently not included in the package as they are (or > were) provided by other packages. See the list of utilities that we > could add in inetutils: > > --disable-tftp --disable-tftpd \ > --disable-ping --disable-ping6 \ > --disable-logger --disable-syslogd \ > --disable-inetd --disable-whois \ > --disable-uucpd --disable-hostname \ > --disable-ifconfig --disable-traceroute > > I don't know how they compare to the other versions of these tools > provided by net-tools, coreutils, etc. But they might be a good > alternative.
That's probably a very good idea. We'd just have to check the functionality versus net-tools. The question remains: what to do with initscripts. It just needs to set the hostname, seems silly to pull in net-tools or inetutils just for this...
