[OE-core] [PATCH 6/8] busybox: remove three hostname test cases

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Nov 21 12:16:53 UTC 2018


On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 05:35, Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
> These three test case are removed because of two reasons.
> 1) net-tools' hostname have different behaviour regarding some options
>    So when net-tools is installed, test cases may fail.
>    e.g.
>    test x$(hostname -i) = x$(busybox hostname -i)

This is just a specific instance of the problem where alternatives may
not be what you want.  The busybox test suite should be sure it's
running busybox tools.  Having spoken to a few people about this
already, maybe busybox-ptest should contain a symlink farm for all the
applets to the busybox binary that run-ptest can put at the front of
$PATH.

> 2) hostname may set to some value, e.g. qemux86-64, which is not an entry in /etc/hosts
>    This results in lookup failure when using `hostname -f' as there's no entry in /etc/hosts.

Let's fix the hostname setup so hosts is correct too.

Ross


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