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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> We modified the init scripts to support either hostname type.  The
> coreutils one is the bad one, I believe.  I _thought_ we already
> modified coreutils to dump hostname from its list of stuff to install so
> that net-tools got its good one in.
> 
> coreutils doesn't need to depend on net-tools.  net-tools is part of the
> basesystem.  More exactly, coreutils doesn't actually depend on
> net-tools anyways, so it would simply be incorrect.
> 
> Seth

I thought we already had as well, but looking at coreutils' history, I see 
only
the following reference to hostname:

2003-11-07 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * BUILD,coreutils-ls-bug.patch: fix bug in ls
        * POST_INSTALL: remove trigger hack for net-tools, hostname script has
b
een fixed 
        so it can use coreutils hostname

And the DETAILS of coreutils says that it installs hostname.

Sounds like we modified net-tools to re-install hostname, which seems to bear
out in net-tools' history as the following three entries:

2003-11-07 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * TRIGGERS: remove now the hostname script has been fixed to be
                compatible with coreutils hostname

2003-07-28 Arwed v. Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
          updated to new init system
          hostname.sh is now installed by init.d

2003-07-18 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
          Add TRIGGER on coreutils as they both provide hostname but this one
          works

So it sounds like we, at one point, modified coreutils to either not install
hostname or to install an up-to-date version of hostname which was compatible
with net-tools' hostname, yet I see nowhere in our code for coreutils to do
such a thing.  Ideas?

-sandalle

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