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After my own stupidity of being bitten, not once, but twice by the perl |
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build breaking because localhost was not in /etc/hosts I decided to plunk |
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around and figure out if that omission was intentional or not. It seems to |
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me that the baselayout ebuild (all versions that I have checked) is |
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broken. |
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The /etc/hosts file that is distributed in rc-scripts-(blah).tar.bz2 has |
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only comments and no real entries. The baselayout ebuild tries to append a |
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localhost line to /etc/hosts in src_install() but never makes it; it |
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returns before it gets to that point for the common case: |
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#skip this if we are merging to ROOT |
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[ "$ROOT" = "/" ] && return |
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I'm not sure that appending the localhost entry is the right thing to do |
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anyway. If I upgrade from one version of baselayout to another I will |
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accumulate localhost entries to my /etc/hosts. I don't think that |
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localhost need to be added dynamically -- it's a static entry. |
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I would suggest that this be added to the /etc/hosts in the rc-scripts |
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archive: |
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127.0.0.1 localhost.localnet localhost |
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and that the /etc/networks in rc-scripts be changed from: |
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loopback 127.0.0.0 |
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to: |
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localnet 172.0.0.0 |
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The reason that I suggest these particular changes is that they are, I |
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belive, the most cannonical with regard to some DNS clients and tools. |
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-Aaron |
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