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On 08/22/2016 03:09 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:28:44PM +0200, Hans de Graaff wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 10:58 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>>> All, |
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>>> it looks like app-emulation/docker expects /etc/hostname to exist. |
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>> Is there a bug for this? docker seems to work fine for me on a system |
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>> without this file present. |
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> Ok, now for the clarification. |
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> Someone here at the office was wanting a cross-platform way to find out |
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> the hostname of the host the container is running on inside the |
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> container. We made another suggestion for that, so forget about the |
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> docker angle on this for now. |
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> But, /etc/hostname is a multi-distro standard for where the hostname is |
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> located, so I would like to make openrc prefer it over the setting in |
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> /etc/conf.d/hostname if it exists.A |
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> I suppose whether we populate it by default might be a separate |
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> question. |
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> William |
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Changing the way one configures the hostname because one or a few |
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packages A) need this knowledge, and B) hardcode /etc/hostname is not |
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worth changing the canonical way to update it and getting people to |
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change their habits. |
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It makes a bit more sense to rely on previous configuration |
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(/etc/conf.d/hostname) and write a tiny 'script' that populates |
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/etc/hostname. bash could do it (naively) in two lines: |
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source /etc/conf.d/hostname |
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echo "$hostname" > /etc/hostname |
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The 'multi-distro standard' is du jour at best and imo not a compelling |
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reason to follow. |
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