Re: [PATCH 1/1] netbase: add entry to /etc/hosts according to /etc/hostname

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 21:45 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 02:18, Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com> wrote:
> > We default hostname to ${MACHINE}, but it's not in /etc/hosts,
> > resulting in commands like `hostname -f' failing due to lack
> > of entry.
> > 
> > So add entry to /etc/hosts according to /etc/hostname. We do
> > this via pkg_postinst because hostname is set in base-files
> > recipe.
> 
> RP and myself are still arguing over this so I thought I'd make my
> argument on the list for debate.
> 
> Updating /etc/hosts is being done with a postinst in netbase simply
> because /etc/hostname is contained in the base-files recipe. I
> advocate just moving the creation of /etc/hosts to base-files along
> with /etc/hostname, then base-files can write both files at the same
> time.  There's already a dependency on base-files from netbase so
> there will be no change in the rootfs, a file will just move between
> packages.

Coming back to this after the holidays, I agree with Ross, we should
move /etc/hostname to base-files and keep this simple. I'd like to get
this fixed, could you update the patch please?

Cheers,

Richard