FS#24546 - [initscripts] cannot set hostname without net-tools

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Antonis (birdflesh) - Thursday, 02 June 2011, 10:37 GMT
Last edited by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Saturday, 04 June 2011, 18:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Initscripts now optionally depend on net-tools. However, without /bin/hostname installed (provided by net-tools), initscripts cannot set a hostname during sysinit. Since this is a serious issue, I believe that either net-tools should become again a mandatory dependency or another tool should be used to set the hostname (I'm not aware of any).


Additional info:
* package version(s): initscripts 2011.06.1-1


Steps to reproduce: Upgrade to initscripts 2011.06.1-1 from [testing] and remove net-tools. Reboot and notice a [FAIL] indication at "Setting Hostname"
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Closed by  Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Saturday, 04 June 2011, 18:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Thursday, 02 June 2011, 10:52 GMT
Thanks for the report. This was already pointed out on the mailinglist, and a new version will be pushed soon where this is fixed (we need to move hostname to coreutils before making net-tools optdepned).

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