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

[Cristian Greco]

Hi Michael.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:02:19AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:17:12PM +0200, Cristian Greco wrote:
> > i'm a new co-maintainer of this package. Bug reopened.
> 
> As already explained I disagree with this.

Agreed. Given that hostname does not provide the domainname binary anymore,
this should be fixed by removing the wrong text from 'hostname --help'. Sorry
for the misunderstanding.

> > 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.
> 
> I don't think I agree. Hostname is required and thus installed anyway, why do
> you think it makes sense to add a different 'domainname' binary? From a short
> look into the sourcecode there's but one function call missing in hostname. So
> I'd prefer asking the nis maintainers to drop their domainname binary in favour
> of hostname.

So I have a patch to use update-alternatives to handle ypdomainname and
nisdomain programs. Can I commit it to git repo? I'd file a bug in nis asking
for cooperation then.

Thanks,
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Cristian Greco
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