Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#594 closed defect (fixed)
Distribute section on Setting up Basic Networking to other sections
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Setting up Basic Networking is unnecessay as a separate section. Move
echo "127.0.0.1 $(hostname) localhost" > /etc/hosts
to a <sect2> in Installing Inetutils and move
cp -f etc/{services,protocols} /etc
to lfs-utils. There is no good reason to have to unpack lfs-utils twice in chapter 6.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
comment:2 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Somewhere along the line, this bug became fixed. I think Alex made some changes about a month ago to address the issues.
The separate section is gone. The hosts file stuff was moved to perl and the services and protocol files were moved to lfs-utils where they belong. Closing.
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Please start a discussion on lfs-dev regarding this fact.
I can see where people might have an issue with it, because creating /etc/hosts isn't really configuring the inetutils package but more basic network configuration (hence that section). But, I do agree that copying the protocols and services files can be part of the earlier lfs-utils installation which would make creating that /etc/hosts file on a page all by itself overkill. Moving to inetutils is the best choice than of all the choices. But, discuss on lfs-dev anyways, maybe there's a choice we overlooked.