[Buildroot] [PATCH] hostname: fix conflicting installs of /bin/hostname

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 08/20/14 23:02, Andrew Ruder wrote:
> Surprisingly long-standing issue with conflicting /bin/hostname
> installs.  Reported as early as November 2005 by Joseph Dupre.
> 
> All together at one point or another there are at least 4 possible
> sources of /bin/hostname:
> 
>         busybox
>         util-linux
>         coreutils
>         net-tools
> 
> Buildroot depends on the -F flag being available in the default
> /etc/inittab.  Out of the 4 listed projects only net-tools and buildroot
> for sure support the -F flag.  I'm a little unclear on util-linux as it
> has been removed entirely (in favor of net-tools) for some time.
> 
> As of coreutils 6.9.90 (2007-12-01), coreutils does not install its
> /bin/hostname by default.  The following commit reenabled its build:
> 
> d6e58cb coreutils: fixed missing hostname (Sep 2010)
> 
> This was done to fix a build error in coreutils regarding help2man.  A
> later patch:
> 
> 30c5105 coreutils: bump to version 8.21
> 
> disabled the help2man functionality entirely but left hostname being
> installed.
> 
> On a very related note, net-tools now contains an obsolete check to add
> util-linux as a dependency to force it to build first (so that net-tools
> ends up with /bin/hostname).
> 
> This patch fixes both of these issues so that hostname always comes from
> one of two places:
> 
>     busybox
>     net-tools
> 
> Tested-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
> Co-authored-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andrew.ruder@elecsyscorp.com>

Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>


 Regards,
 Arnout


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