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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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because coreutils has a crappy hostname, to avoid a trigger on net-tools, the 
hostname script was changed.
If I/we had more time/cared more it could/should have had the Makefile edited 
to stop installation of hostname.
Hamish/drmoriarty


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:43, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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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