[OE-core] [PATCH V3] base-files: provide a mechanism to skip creation of the hostname file

[Mark Hatle]

From: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>

The existence of a /etc/hostname file causes any hostname provided on
the kernel command line or via dhcp to be overwritten by the
initscripts 'init.d/hostname.sh'. This change allows you to set a
value of "" for 'hostname' which will skip the creation of the
/etc/hostname file by the base-files package.

Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
---
 meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb |   12 +++++++-----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
index 6bab040..cda13f4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
@@ -107,10 +107,12 @@ do_install () {
 }
 
 do_install_basefilesissue () {
-	if [ -n "${MACHINE}" -a "${hostname}" = "openembedded" ]; then
-		echo ${MACHINE} > ${D}${sysconfdir}/hostname
-	else
-		echo ${hostname} > ${D}${sysconfdir}/hostname
+	if [ "${hostname}" != "" ]; then
+		if [ -n "${MACHINE}" -a "${hostname}" = "openembedded" ]; then
+			echo ${MACHINE} > ${D}${sysconfdir}/hostname
+		else
+			echo ${hostname} > ${D}${sysconfdir}/hostname
+		fi
 	fi
 
 	install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/issue*  ${D}${sysconfdir}  
@@ -144,5 +146,5 @@ FILES_${PN}-doc = "${docdir} ${datadir}/common-licenses"
 
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
 
-CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/fstab ${sysconfdir}/hostname"
+CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/fstab ${@['', '${sysconfdir}/hostname'][(d.getVar('hostname', True) != '')]}"
 
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