/bin/hostname in buildroots.

Casey Dahlin cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Sun Feb 24 03:48:57 UTC 2008


Dave Jones wrote:
> Looking through build logs of various packages, I keep seeing this..
>
> /etc/profile: line 38: /bin/hostname: No such file or directory
> warning: Could not canonicalize hostname: xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com
>
> Should the buildroots provide this by default (imo, yes), or should
> packages have to explicitly BuildRequires: this ?
>
> 	Dave 
>
>   

I think we should determine the exact use cases for this. The first 5 
reasons I can think of for having it around are evil, but there's a 
couple of legitimate ones.

--CJD




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