Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 14, 2014 10:50 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Of course this goes to a General Resolution by anselm
Parent article: The Debian technical committee vote concludes

And doesn't systemd make that a configurable option :-)

So you can leave the distro default untouched for old packages that look for it directly, but new packages can query systemd and know that they'll get the answer, without having to worry about where it came from.

Certainly I've wasted enough time on various nixen (RiscOS, SCO, SuSE, Slack, gentoo) trying to hunt it down :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 14, 2014 11:16 UTC (Fri) by mchapman (subscriber, #66589) [Link] (1 responses)

> And doesn't systemd make that a configurable option :-)

No, it's hard-coded.

You could leave the old distro-specific file around, but it'd get out-of-sync with the file managed by hostnamed.

Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 14, 2014 12:42 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

A distribution would be perfectly free to change hostnamed such that it writes the (static) hostname to the old distribution-specific file whenever the hostname is changed through its D-Bus interface.

(Of course that should be considered a temporary measure until the distribution is fixed.)