Bug#586360: preseed/url: netcfg/get_hostname value is ignored even if DHCP was disabled

[Teodor <mteodor@gmail.com>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Hi,

I've performed several (automatic) installations of virtual machines with Debian
5.0 (lenny) using preseed/url and this line is completely ignored:
| d-i netcfg/get_hostname string pro-kd5x01

Instead of setting the hostname to 'pro-kd5x01' it was computed from the reverse
DNS entry for the given IP address with 'netcfg/get_ipaddress' parameter. Also,
probably the 'netcfg/get_domain' is also ignored but in this case it was the same
as in rDNS so it didn't matter.

Note that DHCP was disabled during the installation with this d-i key:
| netcfg/disable_dhcp=true

>From the docs I've read that 'netcfg/get_ipaddress' should only be ignored if
these values are given by a DHCP server. However, I don't have a DHCP server in
that remote network (thus the use of netcfg/disable_dhcp=true to avoid any
interactive communication during install).

Thanks


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