Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)
On Sat 13 Jan 2018 at 16:56:05 (+0000), Glenn English wrote:
> Has anyone in this thread mentioned DNS yet?
Quoting RFC 1178:
“There is always room for an exception.
“I don't think any explanation is needed here. However, let me
add that if you later decide to change a name (to something
sensible like you should have chosen in the first place), you
are going to be amazed at the amount of pain awaiting you. No
matter how easy the manuals suggest it is to change a name, you
will find that lots of obscure software has rapidly accumulated
which refers to that computer using that now-ugly name. It all
has to be found and changed. People mailing to you from other
sites have to be told. And you will have to remember that
names on old backup media labels correspond to different names.
“I could go on but it would be easier just to forget this
guideline exists.”
Cheers,
David.
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