Couple of issues with hostname programs

[chris@…]

1. Far as I can tell, --enable-install-program=hostname in Chapter 5 Coreutils is redundant since Coreutils is installed in Chapter 6 before Perl anyway.

2. Inetutils 1.6 now installs its own hostname program, into /usr/bin. Either that one or Coreutils' version should be disabled ("--disable-hostname" could be added to Inetutils' configure).

[Matthew Burgess]

Chris, I think the --enable-install-program=hostname is given so that the Perl test suite can be run in Chapter 5, if so desired by the reader.

I'll add the --disable-hostname parameter to util-linux-ng though. Our use of it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/localnet only requires the basic utility provided by Coreutils.

[Matthew Burgess]

From DJ on lfs-book:

Before you do that, does util-linux-ng bring back fqdn capable

hostname? I've been using a shell script to query/write proc/ for hostname for a long time.

Yes, I believe inetutils (not util-linux-ng, sorry, comment 1 had a typo!) does provide a fqdn capable hostname:

matthew@kyoto:~/sources/inetutils-1.6/hostname$ ./hostname --help
Usage: hostname [OPTION...] [NAME]
Show or set the system's host name.

  -a, --aliases, --alias     Alias names
  -d, --domain               DNS domain name
  -f, --fqdn, --long         DNS host name or FQDN
  -F, --file=FILE            Read host name or NIS domain name from FILE
  -i, --ip-addresses, --ip-address
                             Addresses for the host name
  -s, --short                Short host name
  -y, --yp, --nis            NIS/YP domain name
  -?, --help                 give this help list
      --usage                give a short usage message
  -V, --version              print program version

So, do we instead want to disable Coreutils' version by removing the '--enable-install-program=hostname' from chapter06/coreutils.xml and moving Inetutils up in the build order to before Perl?

Regards,

Matt.

[chris@…]

Actually if you wanted to prefer the Inetutils hostname, you could just remove hostname from Chapter 6 Coreutils and do nothing else - Perl could just use the hostname program provided by Coreutils in /tools.

[Matthew Burgess]

Yeah, I thought of that too, Chris. I'd rather we exercise the version of the program we're going to ultimately be running though, just in case there are any compatibility issues.

[Matthew Burgess]

Fixed in r8836.