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On August 28, 2012 08:47:33 Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 27 aug. 2012, om 17:24 heeft Mark Asselstine 
<mark.asselstine@windriver.com> het volgende geschreven:
> > Current logic used to create the /etc/hostname file is fairly
> > restrictive and doesn't allow for easy customization since the
> > variable 'hostname' is local to the base-files recipe.
> 
> hostname_pn-basefiles_someotheroverride = "foo"

Point taken. Do you object to the attempt at making it less obscure however?

Any thoughts about the second part to this, not creating the /etc/hostname 
file? Without being able to avoid the creation of /etc/hostname the 
initscripts 'init.d/hostname.sh' will set the hostname overwriting what is set 
by the kernel cmdline or dhcp.

Thanks for the feedback,
Mark