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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netbase: Adding loop back for machine name in hosts file
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:20:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53DADD68.8070008@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9ODKpYgA9jQ2u4Nwh2=+NoQJcZiydtZdkDu0-jvnKfZxHvvg@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/31/14, 3:44 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Enrico Scholz
> <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>> Sujith H <sujith.h-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>>> +     echo 127.0.1.1 "             "${MACHINE} >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/hosts
>>
>> This is a very questionable setup which causes a lot of harm.  When
>> really wanted, it should be made optional and not the default.
>
> What kind of harm you see?
>
> I think moving this to postinst works for me and does not cause
> problems I think.
>

The only default configuration for 127.0.0.1 (not 1.1) should be localhost. 
Anything after that is installation independent and should be configured outside 
of the 'package' scope...

I recommend ROOTFS_POSTINSTALL_COMMAND...

--Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-01  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-31 14:59 [PATCH] netbase: Adding loop back for machine name in hosts file Sujith H
2014-07-31 15:42 ` Khem Raj
2014-07-31 15:48   ` Mark Hatle
2014-07-31 16:20 ` Enrico Scholz
2014-07-31 20:44   ` Otavio Salvador
2014-08-01  0:20     ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2014-08-01  9:22     ` Enrico Scholz
2014-08-04 13:57       ` sujith h

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