[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] netbase/base-files: move /etc/hosts from netbase to base-files

[ChenQi]

On 01/08/2019 09:00 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 12:47, <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>> Not so good if hostname isn't set?
>>> hostname = "${MACHINE}"
>>>
>>> Hostname is always set. :)
>> Its the kind of thing people likely bbappend and change, or set from
>> overrides. Which was one of the reasons I'm nervous about moving hosts
>> to a different package in the first place...
> In all those situation the hostname will be set, right?  Is anyone
> actually going to bbappend/override the value to ""?
>
> Ross
>

We did so maybe two or three years ago, via a distro configuration file. 
We later removed this override.
Also, the original codes in base-files are:
         if [ "${hostname}" ]; then
                 echo ${hostname} > ${D}${sysconfdir}/hostname
         fi
So I just put the line in the check.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi