Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Joachim Breitner 2010-06-14 <1276516697.2751.7.ca...@kirk> > > at the moment, the Debian installer creates a /etc/hosts file > > containing the local host nameĀ¹, so that this name is resolvable even > > if not registered in the DNS. Unfortunately, this is a possible cause > > of problems when t

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi joey, Am Sonntag, den 13.06.2010, 10:59 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Would this be something that could be used by default in Debian, maybe > > for squeeze+1? > > You're suggesting making the package standard priority. This is not a > decision within the purvue of th

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Breitner wrote: > Would this be something that could be used by default in Debian, maybe > for squeeze+1? You're suggesting making the package standard priority. This is not a decision within the purvue of the d-i team, really. If libnss-myhostname becomes standard priority, or /etc/host

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joachim Breitner] > What do you think? To me this seem like a good idea, but for it to be done smoothly, we should get some standardised way to modify nsswitch.conf. It should become as easy to add new NSS modules as it currently is to add PAM modules thanks to pam-auth-update. Someone should l

libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
[Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed] Hi debian-installer team, at the moment, the Debian installer creates a /etc/hosts file containing the local host nameĀ¹, so that this name is resolvable even if not registered in the DNS. Unfortunately, this is a possible cause of problems when th