Re: netcfg hostname and domain questions

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Am Fre, den 16.01.2004 schrieb Otavio Salvador um 16:44:
> Hello folks,
> 
> Yestarday I've talked with Joey in IRC and some ideas come in mind, so
> I need discuss about this with all:
> 
> The current netcfg code doesn't ask for domain in default debconf
> priority but this is wrong since domain is so important then
> hostname so I suggested to change it priority to 'high' like hostname
> question and add one question in default installation.

I think the assumption that the importance of a setting in an installed
system should be the reason to ask it in d-i. I rather suggest removing
hostname configuration from d-i altogether and make the hostname
configuration in base-config work. At least IIRC this was the plan once
and joey did some work to implement this but it was never finished and
because of that the hostname questions in netcfg was raised to priority
high. 

> 
> Other issue is the double question about hostname when dhcp fails. We
> should try to do dhcp query _before_ ask the hostname and if it
> success and doesn't give this information then ask by it. Using this
> logical we remove the doubled question if that case.
This is #227897.

Gaudenz