<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Ross Burton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com" target="_blank">ross.burton@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":j3" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">+# The default hostname. If set to the magic value "machinename" then the value<br>
+# of MACHINE is used. If the hostname is unset then a /etc/hostname file isn't<br>
+# written, suitable for environments with dynamic hostnames.<br>
#<br>
-# set standard hostname, might be a candidate for a DISTRO variable? :M:<br>
-#<br>
-hostname = "openembedded"<br>
+# This can be changed outside of this recipe by using<br>
+# hostname_pn-base-files = "my-host-name".<br>
+hostname = "machinename"</div></blockquote></div><br>Question, why use a magic value at all? Why not just set hostname = "${MACHINE}"?<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Christopher Larson<br>clarson at kergoth dot com<br>Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus<br>Maintainer - Tslib<br>Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics</div>
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