[Buildroot] [PATCH 10/24 v2] package/perl: use dummy hostname

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jul 5 13:59:42 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:07:32 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> The hostname does not look like it serves any useful purpose, except
> maybe to set set perladmin email.
> 
> Which is undoubtfully useless on the target.
> 
> A followup commit will make the hostname depend on the default skeleton,
> so it won't always be available. We can not rely on it to be set.
> 
> Besides, even today it is not guaranteed to be set; a user may well
> leave it empty.
> 
> Use a dummy hostname.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> ---
>  package/perl/perl.mk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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