On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Do any of you know if there is a `hostname' program that is > featureful and portable enough that we could simply remove hostname > from coreutils -- or at least stop installing it? > > I would strongly object to the removal of `hostname' in coreutils. On > GNU/Hurd it would essentially result in not having `hostname'.
I just had a look into http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools/ and they are GNU version 2 licensed. > > Debian GNU/Hurd uses net-tools I belive, but this conflicts with > inetutils. Maybe a solution would be to move hostname into inetutils, > where it really belongs. What do you think? I'll happily do the > move. My Gentoo box uses hostname/ifconfig from net-tools. What do you meant "conflicts? I don't understand why should hostname move into inetutils. Once more, why couldn't hostname be removed from coreutils? I don't know much about Hurd, but couldnt Hurd use hostaname from net-tools too? Is there a distribution/packaging problem or something else? I thought we just don't want to build coreutils's hostname on boxes where /usr/bin/hostname exists already or when the version from net-tools is know to perform better. Personally, if configure in coreutils would include a code to disable hostname based on certain criteria, I would be happy with that too. Thanks -- Martin Mokrejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
