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

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 16:51 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 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


Is this missing a hostname ??= "openembedded" perhaps?

Cheers,

Richard

>  	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) != '')]}"
>