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Mike Gilbert posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:49:42 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> |
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>> On 08/24/2016 07:37 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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>>> I imagine _someone_ out there wants it, otherwise we wouldn't be |
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>>> discussing it. |
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>> The thread started out proposing it as a solution to a docker problem |
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>> that, it turns out, isn't a problem. Why are we still trying to fixing |
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>> something that isn't broken? Maybe I'm losing it, but nowhere in the |
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>> whole thread has anyone given a single reason why this might be useful. |
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> You're right that the orignal purpose of the change has been debunked. |
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> So, starting over: one real benefit would be cross-compatibility with |
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> systemd. It's one less thing people would need to reconfigure when |
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> migrating to/from openrc. |
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> And before anyone starts an argument about it, I don't care what your |
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> opinion on systemd is. I'm just throwing this out there as an actual |
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> benefit of adding support for /etc/hostname to openrc. |
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Are you sure about systemd? |
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Because I'm on systemd here, working fine as far as can be observed, and |
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I don't have /etc/hostname. |
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[after googling and checking manpages] |
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Seems it's (semi-?)optional. The hostnamectl command can be used to set |
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the hostname (pretty/static/transient/or-combination-of) among other |
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things, and /etc/hostname presumably controls the static name. |
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But I have the (reported as transient) name set by kconfig option, and |
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apparently that's all that's needed on my setup, anyway. |
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So it seems systemd works just fine without /etc/hostname, certainly so |
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if it's set elsewhere, like say via kconfig option. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |