[OE-core] hostname issues

[Andreas Müller]

Hi,

for xfce-session we have some very bad workaround entering machine
name to /etc/hosts [1]

I looked into this and found (let's assume ${MACHINE}='foomachine'):

* basefiles: By default /etc/hostname contains 'foomachine'
* netbase: /etc/hosts contains '127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain
   localhost'

Shouldn't this be

/etc/hosts: '127.0.0.1    foomachine        localhost'
or
/etc/hostname: 'localhost.localdomain'

To test do

'ping foomachine'
or
hostname -f

What do experts say?

[1] https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/master/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfce4-session/machine-host.bb

Regards

Andreas