FS#26246 - [news] The news feed needs to mention that hostname has moved from net-tools to inetutils.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Steven (Stebalien) - Tuesday, 04 October 2011, 13:45 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 07 October 2011, 00:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

As inetutils is now in the base group, nothing that needs inetutils explicitly depends on it. As such, it will not be installed when updating and packages that expect inetutils to be installed will break. For example, updating net-tools breaks dhcpcd as dhcpcd depends on hostname (provided by inetutils).
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Friday, 07 October 2011, 00:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  I posted a front page news.
Comment by Natrio (natrio) - Wednesday, 05 October 2011, 07:04 GMT
Agreed.
net-tools package is old and traditional, but safe.
inetutils package is not just obsolete, it consists of ancient unsafe commands like rsh, rlogin, telnet.
The only relatively useful command in inetutils package is ftp, but it is more preferable replacements, such as tnftp or lftp.
I abandoned the idea of ​​replacing tnftp to inetutils only for hostname.

I hope that the hostname back to the net-tools.
Until I temporary replaced it with a script:
#!/bin/sh
cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
Comment by Steven (Stebalien) - Wednesday, 05 October 2011, 12:51 GMT
@Natrio
While I do agree that inetutils should not be in the base group, this bug report is about a completely different problem.

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