Re: [ITP] hostname 3.12 (Attn: coreutils maintainer)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 10 09:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  9 22:55, Christian Franke wrote:
> > I would like to contribute the (Debian) Linux version of hostname(1)
> > and would suggest to remove the GNU hostname command from coreutils
> > package.
> > 
> > This version of hostname allows to show the FQDN (-f), DNS domain
> > name (-d, dnsdomainname), alias names (-a, -A) or network addresses
> > (-i, -I). Works reasonably on Cygwin.
> > 
> > It is a slightly patched version of hostname 3.12 from Debian
> > unstable which is at least also used on Fedora.
> > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hostname
> > 
> > The packages below are intended for testing. Command and man page
> > are installed as "hostname-linux" with the usual symlinks
> > "domainname" and "dnsdomainname". This should keep hostname from
> > coreutils intact.
> > [...]
> 
> I'm just generating a 64 bit coreutils package without hostname.
> If you provide a new 64 bit package with hostname being called
> hostname, I could upload them together later today.

Just FYI, the hostnameless coreutils package is ready for upload.


Corinna

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