[PATCH master] Replace hostname with hostnamectl (#989584)

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Wed Jul 31 15:52:35 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:13:35PM +0200, Radek Vykydal wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 06:55 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:35:45PM +0200, Radek Vykydal wrote:
> >>Based on patch by Jóhann B. Guðmundsson.
> >>---
> >Why the change? Is hostname going away? Might want to include that kind
> >of info in the commit message.
> >
> 
> I asked Jóhann and here is his answer:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989584#c6
> 
> (sorry for bugizilla <-> anaconda-patches forwarding but I think
> we can communicate it in BZ in this case)

Ok, so basically systemd provides the same thing and this reduces our
external deps.

> 
> My only concern would be people relying on hostname in eg kickstart
> %post, but this regards mostly rhel I think.

As long as the functionality is the same and the change is documented
I'd think it's just fine.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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