[Hostname-devel] Bug#501005: [hostname] domainname command still not working

[Cristian Greco]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:24:01PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:

> As of version 2.97 this is fixed for 'ypdomainname' and
> 'nisdomainname', but not 'domainname'.

Hi Graham,

i'm a new co-maintainer of this package. Bug reopened.

AFAICS from debian/changelog the {yp,nis,}domainname aliases were added and
then quickly removed in some versions a long time ago, while the NIS
functionality was still alive in the source code.

---->----
hostname (2.06) unstable; urgency=low

  * No longer proved hardlinks for domainname, nisdomainname, and
    ypdomainname.  Closes: #48850, #49009, #49067, #49248, #49553, #49954

 -- Adam Heath <doogie at debian.org>  Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:50:31 -0600

hostname (2.05) unstable; urgency=low

  [...]
  * Added hardlinks for binaries domainname, nisdomainname and
    ypdomainname.  Also updated programs internal version.  Closes: #22993
  [...]

 -- Adam Heath <doogie at debian.org>  Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:12:31 -0500
----<----

Reintroducing these names now isn't just a matter of coding (in particular,
fixing the 'domainname' alias as you noticed), but we still have to deal with
the name conflict from 'nis' package (see new #546753).

My proposal is to avoid dropping this behaviour from hostname. We could rather
provide these aliases through update-alternatives with priority lower than
those installed by nis.

If no one complain about this solution (co-maints, Michael?) I'm going to fix
this in the git repo.

Thanks,
--
Cristian Greco
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