[ITP] hostname 3.12 (Attn: coreutils maintainer)

[Christian Franke]

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.

wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=2 \
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hostname/hostname-3.12-1-src.tar.bz2 
\
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hostname/hostname-3.12-1.tar.bz2 \
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hostname/hostname-debuginfo/hostname-debuginfo-3.12-1.tar.bz2 
\
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hostname/hostname-debuginfo/setup.hint 
\
  http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hostname/setup.hint

64bit:
wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=2 \
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/64bit/hostname/hostname-3.12-1-src.tar.bz2 
\
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/64bit/hostname/hostname-3.12-1.tar.bz2 
\
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/64bit/hostname/hostname-debuginfo/hostname-debuginfo-3.12-1.tar.bz2 
\
http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/64bit/hostname/hostname-debuginfo/setup.hint 
\
  http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/64bit/hostname/setup.hint

Christian

PS: /usr/lib/gettext/hostname from gettext-devel is another hostname 
variant supporting -f and -i