tag 21889 notabug thanks On 11/12/2015 05:16 AM, Notes Jonny wrote: > GNU package seems to be quite different to the standard debian package Or rather, debian packages a different hostname for their distro than the GNU coreutils' hostname. > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hostname > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hostname.1.html > > Cygwin uses GNU Coreutils version with my old cygwin seems to not support -f > > Could "hostname" be standardised, creating a single package, rather > than duplicating? This is a distro question, and better asked on the cygwin list. GNU coreutils has already marked hostname as one of the utilities that can easily be excluded from installation, for the sake of distros that plan to package a different package's hostname as their default. But it is then up to the distro which other hostname they plan to use, which is more relevant to the distro and not to upstream coreutils. > I am not on this list, so could you include my email address in any replies That's already list policy (thanks to the reply-to-all feature of modern mail clients). I don't see anything that needs to change in upstream coreutils, so I'm closing the bug report in this database. However, feel free to add further comments to this thread, and/or to take your question to the cygwin list on how you propose they change their distro. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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