[ITP] hostname 3.12 (Attn: coreutils maintainer)
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 10 07:57:00 GMT 2013
On Apr 9 22:55, Christian Franke wrote:
> I would like to contribute the (Debian) Linux version of hostname(1)
> and would suggest to remove the GNU hostname command from coreutils
> package.
>
> This version of hostname allows to show the FQDN (-f), DNS domain
> name (-d, dnsdomainname), alias names (-a, -A) or network addresses
> (-i, -I). Works reasonably on Cygwin.
>
> It is a slightly patched version of hostname 3.12 from Debian
> unstable which is at least also used on Fedora.
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hostname
>
> The packages below are intended for testing. Command and man page
> are installed as "hostname-linux" with the usual symlinks
> "domainname" and "dnsdomainname". This should keep hostname from
> coreutils intact.
> [...]
I'm just generating a 64 bit coreutils package without hostname.
If you provide a new 64 bit package with hostname being called
hostname, I could upload them together later today.
Corinna
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