Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

[Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Peter Nagel <peter.nagel@kit.edu> [2016-02-24 13:47]:
>> The debian installer (within expert mode) does not ask for the (new)
>> hostname but just takes the hostname from the flash memory.
>
> We read the hostname from your existing configuration, but I don't see
> any code that actually sets this hostname in d-i (this might be a
> bug).

I'm learning d-i code these days, so just want to confirm... you mean
the code in:
  http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/oldsys-preseed.git/tree/oldsys-preseed
Line: 291
  HOSTNAME=$(grep "Server Name" $path/sda1/.config/uLinux.conf | sed 's/^.* //')

hostname get from there, and d-i won't really set up $HOSTNAME?

I guess hostname should be set by the Line 293:
  unset_matching_var "HOSTNAME" NAS$(echo "$MAC" | sed
's/^..:..:..://' | sed 's/://g')

There're several calling to "unset_matching_var" for other devices in
that script, so if it's not working, it should be a bug to report.

Cheers,
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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