[Bug 333783] Fix for Bug 300571 leads to hostname "(none)"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333783#c2


Hans-Peter Holler  changed:

           What    |Removed                                         |Added
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             Status|NEEDINFO                                        |NEW
      Info Provider|holler@nefkom.info                              |




--- Comment #2 from Hans-Peter Holler   2007-10-15 10:47:54 MST ---
(In reply to comment #1 from John Jolly)
> If the hostname is not specified as a boot parameter (either the option is left
> empty on the 'ip' option, or no 'ip' option is specified), then the
> boot.localnet script should fall back to the /etc/HOSTNAME file.
        test -f /etc/HOSTNAME && {
            XHOSTNAME=`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`
        }
+        test -n "$HOSTNAME" && {
+            echo Using boot-specified hostname \'${HOSTNAME}\'
+            XHOSTNAME="$HOSTNAME"
+        }
Your patch overrides $XHOSTNAME if $HOSTNAME exists.
But $HOSTNAME exists at runtime of boot.localnet and is filled with "(none)" in
case of 'ip' boot params are _not_ specified in my environment.
> Does this file exist?
Yes.
> Are you still using the 'nfsroot' option?
I don't use this option at all.
> Are you expecting DHCP to set the hostname for you?
No.

If I understand 300571 correctly that bug is a SLES issue. But 300571 was
reported against 10.3 Beta 1, so maybe submitting your patch to stable
transported it to the aaa_base-10.3.1-2 package in Factory which is the public
repository I use.
And so: Everyone using latest Factory has now set hostname to "(none)" :-(

HTH
Hans-Peter


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