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[bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils
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Simon Josefsson |
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[bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils |
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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:11:53 +0200 |
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden ./configure --prefix=$HOME
> --enable-install-program=hostname && make -j2
> ...
> ...
> address@hidden src/hostname --help
> Usage: src/hostname [NAME]
> or: src/hostname OPTION
> Print or set the hostname of the current system.
>
> --help display this help and exit
> --version output version information and exit
>
> Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
> address@hidden src/hostname -i
> src/hostname: invalid option -- i
> Try `src/hostname --help' for more information.
> address@hidden
>
> Ha! Very good. I will ask Jim to remove hostname from future versions
> of coreutils when we have released 1.6.
Note that coreutils doesn't even install 'hostname' by default, at least
according to their NEWS entry:
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.90 (2007-12-01) [beta]
...
** Programs no longer installed by default
hostname, su
So this duplication might not be a big problem.
/Simon
- [bug-inetutils] hostname -- new addition to Inetutils, Debarshi Ray, 2008/08/09
- [bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils, Debarshi Ray, 2008/08/12
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2008/08/13
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils, Debarshi Ray, 2008/08/14
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2008/08/14
- [bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils,
Simon Josefsson <=
- [bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2008/08/14
- [bug-inetutils] Re: hostname -- new addition to Inetutils, Debarshi Ray, 2008/08/14