Hi Eric, On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, inetutils also could provide a hostname and even an ifconfig binary. They are currently not included in the package as they are (or were) provided by other packages. See the list of utilities that we could add in inetutils:
--disable-tftp --disable-tftpd \ --disable-ping --disable-ping6 \ --disable-logger --disable-syslogd \ --disable-inetd --disable-whois \ --disable-uucpd --disable-hostname \ --disable-ifconfig --disable-traceroute
I don't know how they compare to the other versions of these tools provided by net-tools, coreutils, etc. But they might be a good alternative.
That's probably a very good idea. We'd just have to check the functionality versus net-tools. The question remains: what to do with initscripts. It just needs to set the hostname, seems silly to pull in net-tools or inetutils just for this...