Hi Neil, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org>: > Erik Schanze <schan...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Please consider to include the changes. > > Unfortunately, I cannot do that as the changes would be lost when the > manpages are next generated. > This diff was not intended as directly appliable patch, just to show my points.
> Please provide patches for the relevant > source files. You are the maintainer, so please find the relevent source changes by yourselfes. > +sh # echo "127\&.0\&.0\&.1 mybox\&.mydomain mybox" > /etc/hosts > > That is not true - hostname -f must work quite apart from what > emsetup requires. It is not up to emsetup to go meddling with > /etc/hosts/ > Your example with a debootstapped chroot wouldn't work without this adaption. I think it would be fine to have a working example in man page: neo:~# chroot /opt/debian-sid-chroot/ neo:/# mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts_disabled neo:/# hostname -f hostname: Unknown host neo:/# emsetup -v --simulate --arch i386 Updating main system apt cache (enter your sudo password if prompted). sudo: unable to resolve host neo Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org sid Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org sid Release Hit http://www.emdebian.org unstable Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://www.emdebian.org unstable Release Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Sources Hit http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Sources Reading package lists... Done Checking apt cache data is up to date ... Checking unstable on i386 using apt sources debug: recreating /root/.apt-cross/sources.unstable Updating apt-cache for i386 Get:1 http://www.emdebian.org unstable Release.gpg [197B] Get:2 http://www.emdebian.org unstable Release [16.5kB] Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [189B] Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable Release [80.6kB] Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex Get:5 http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages [72.6kB] Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages [5721kB] Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Sources Hit http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Sources Fetched 5891kB in 16s (352kB/s) Reading package lists... Done hostname: Unknown host emsetup: Unable to determine fully qualified hostname. Please check your /etc/hosts file. See emsetup (1) for more information. neo:/# mv /etc/hosts_disabled /etc/hosts neo:/# hostname -f neo.localdomain > I would consider a patch that describes what the user needs to do > within /etc/hosts manually. As you like. Kindly regards, Erik -- www.ErikSchanze.de ********************************************* Bitte keine HTML-E-Mails! No HTML mails, please! Limit: 100 kB * - Linux-Info-Tag in Dresden auch 2009 wieder * Info: http://www.linux-info-tag.de/ * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
