Distribute section on Setting up Basic Networking to other sections

[bdubbs@…]

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.

[gerard@…]

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.

[greg@…]

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.