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Francesco Riosa wrote:
> Mike Frysinger ha scritto:
>
>> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 03:14 pm, Francesco Riosa wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is safe / portable use the $(hostname) inside an ebuild ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> you should have a good reason for why you need it ... building a
>> package on a machine shouldnt build a package which is specific to
>> that machine ... afterall, a lot of people build on one but deploy on
>> another ...
>>
>> now if you used said function in pkg_config(), that's a different
>> story ...
>> -mike
>>
>>
> it's a different story ;)
> I'm rewriting the pkg_config() of the mysql ebuild to allow the user
> insert a password,
> and bypass some problem that happens with bitkeeper sources builds.
> The hostname is needed to insert some users in the initial database.
>
> http://www.francesco-riosa.com/gentoo/mysql-base.ebuild.html
Also keep in mind that Linux is not the only operating system Gentoo runs on
nowadays. hostname on Linux is not the same as hostname on BSD (which by
default prints the fully qualified hostname not the short hostname). I believe
using 'hostname -s' should produce the same output on both operating systems.
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