Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

Should honour hostname from DHCP

Bug #24600 reported by Guilherme Salgado
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Bug Description

scripts/nfs should set the hostname if available from the net-${DEVICE}.conf file

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François Périchon (francois-perichon) wrote :

Colin Watson added the hostname applet in busybox-initramfs 1:1.01-3ubuntu2.
If you add the line
hostname = ${HOSTNAME}
in scripts/nfs, it solves the problem.

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

See also bug #42929.

Adam Conrad (adconrad)
Changed in initramfs-tools:
assignee: adconrad → nobody
Phillip Susi (psusi)
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

initramfs-tools 0.142ubuntu7 has an autopkgtest qemu-net that tests that the hostname is set to the value provided by the DHCP server.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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