Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (242 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > Does anyone know any users of /usr/bin/hostid? We have a custom one
> > in the util-linux package but upstream coreutils contains a
> > different implementation. Ours prints '0xnumber' while upstream only
> > prints 'number'. Also ours allows to set the hostid and the man page
> > refers to /etc/hostid. However, hostid doesn't actually read that
> > file and there also doesn't seem to be an init script for it either.
>
> Of course does /usr/bin/hostid read /etc/hostid, only look at strace.
> Ok, it's not hostid directly, but via gethostid() from glibc.

Ah, ok.

> > So I wonder whether we could safely switch to the coreutils version.
>
> Somebody need to check LSB, if the test suite uses this command.
> The spec doesn't refer to it, but this means nothing.

If LSB uses hostid and relies on that specific output something must
be broken one way or another. But then do other distros actually
care about LSB?

cu
Ludwig

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