From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:59:42 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/24 v2] package/perl: use dummy hostname In-Reply-To: <9303aacab6fc99c113c9ca742beae73abbab47c6.1466622379.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <9303aacab6fc99c113c9ca742beae73abbab47c6.1466622379.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <20160705155942.7247fad0@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:07:32 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > The hostname does not look like it serves any useful purpose, except > maybe to set set perladmin email. > > Which is undoubtfully useless on the target. > > A followup commit will make the hostname depend on the default skeleton, > so it won't always be available. We can not rely on it to be set. > > Besides, even today it is not guaranteed to be set; a user may well > leave it empty. > > Use a dummy hostname. > > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > --- > package/perl/perl.mk | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied to master, thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com