[OE-core] [PATCH V2] base-files: provide a mechanism to skip creation of the hostname file

[Mark Asselstine]

On August 28, 2012 19:38:04 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:20 -0400, Mark Asselstine wrote:
> > +	if [ "${hostname}" != "none" ]; then
> 
> This magic string value seems a bit unwholesome.  Can't you just check
> against the empty string?

The 'none' was suggested by a colleague and I just ran with it, but yes an 
empty string would work just fine and be less 'unwholesome' as you say.

> 
> Also, if the problem is that the static hostname set here is overriding
> the one from dhcp or the command line, I wonder whether this just
> indicates that the priority of them is wrong and the scripting should be
> adjusted so that the static file has lower priority than the other two
> things.


hostname.sh doesn't leave much room for priority

---snip---
if test -f /etc/hostname
then
        hostname -F /etc/hostname
fi
---snip---

looking at this you can see my logic, don't create the /etc/hostname file get 
rid of the overwrite.

Mark

> 
> p.