Bug#755848: preseed d-i netcfg/hostname does not set hostname

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Wed 23 Jul 2014 at 23:12:02 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:

> using "d-i netcfg/hostname string foobar" in preseed file still makes
> the installer to ask user for hostname. or when using kernel option
> priority=critcal hostname is silently set to "noname".
> 
> info from:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt

  # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over
  # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions
  # from being shown, even if values come from dhcp.
  d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname

This line is used with "d-i netcfg/hostname string foobar".

I do not think this is a bug.

Regards,

Brian.