[OE-core] hostname issues

[Andreas Müller]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Christopher Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Andreas Müller
> <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> for xfce-session we have some very bad workaround entering machine
>> name to /etc/hosts [1]
>>
>> I looked into this and found (let's assume ${MACHINE}='foomachine'):
>>
>> * basefiles: By default /etc/hostname contains 'foomachine'
>> * netbase: /etc/hosts contains '127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain
>>    localhost'
>>
>> Shouldn't this be
>>
>> /etc/hosts: '127.0.0.1    foomachine        localhost'
>> or
>> /etc/hostname: 'localhost.localdomain'
>>
>> To test do
>>
>> 'ping foomachine'
>> or
>> hostname -f
>>
>> What do experts say?
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/master/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-session/machine-host.bb
>
>
> I'd suggest just installing nss-myhostname for sysvinit, and for systemd,
> systemd already includes the myhostname nss plugin, so it just needs
> enabling in nsswitch.conf (I submitted a patch recently to make it do that
> by default).
Thanks a lot - that looks promising. Will give the systemd nss path a
test with your patch.

Andreas