[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 00/23] Scooping up Patches

[Cui, Dexuan]

Richard Purdie wrote on 2011-11-29:
>> The following changes since commit
>> 2864ff6a4b3c3f9b3bbb6d2597243cc5d3715939:
>> 
>>   getVar/setVar cleanups (2011-11-26 22:42:00 +0000)
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>   git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib sgw/stage
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h =
> sgw/stage
>> 
>> Dexuan Cui (1):
>>   coreutils: build and install hostname
Hi RP, Saul,
Please don't pull the patch -- I don't think we should use it now:
The purpose of the patch is to use the hostname of coreutils version rather than that of busybox version:
IIRC, because of http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1784 (busybox not working with pseudo:libpseudo.so cannot be preloaded: ignored), busybox's hostname causes a non-fatal warning message in some package's do_configure's log (at this moment, I don't remember the package's name...), but, I think actually we can safely ignore the warning msg.

hostname of coreutils version has 2 issues: 1) need to disable doc/man generation to make do_compile pass; 2) it doesn't support -F : http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded/commit/?id=f2e1da7559d1798ae8314d8824c8d53da0b3506b so we have to fix(or hack) poky's meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/hostname.sh if we decide to use it.

After discussed with Saul, I think we may as well choose to do nothing to coreutils and endure the warning caused by busybox's hostname.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan