Bug 1028758
Summary: | no easy way to change computer name before or during installation | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Alexander van Loon <a.vanloon> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 20 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, a.vanloon, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mcatanzaro+wrong-account-do-not-cc, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vpodzime |
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Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2015-01-16 17:00:40 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Alexander van Loon
2013-11-10 14:09:13 UTC
Would you be willing to create an Anaconda addon providing that screen? [1] I would, of course, give a helping hand every time needed. [1] http://vpodzime.fedorapeople.org/anaconda-addon-development-guide/ Willing certainly, but I'm not sure if I'm able to. I've got some experience with HTML, CSS and R but I'm not an experienced programmer. From your link I understand that Anaconda uses Python and I remember hearing that Python is relatively easy to learn. In the coming days/weeks I'll read your link in detail and give it a shot. I'm unemployed so I have a relatively large amount of free time available. I will report back here in this bug report when I have made progress. (In reply to Alexander van Loon from comment #2) > Willing certainly, but I'm not sure if I'm able to. I've got some experience > with HTML, CSS and R but I'm not an experienced programmer. From your link I > understand that Anaconda uses Python and I remember hearing that Python is > relatively easy to learn. > > In the coming days/weeks I'll read your link in detail and give it a shot. > I'm unemployed so I have a relatively large amount of free time available. I > will report back here in this bug report when I have made progress. Feel free to email me any comments or questions, I'll be glad to help. *** Bug 1094068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Since this was marked a duplicate of Bug #1094068, I'll mention that the hostname field should use hostnamed so that it can accept pretty hostnames with spaces and special characters, like GNOME and systemd do. 1) We don't really care what systemd has decided to redefine the hostname to be. The network spoke sets the network hostname. 2) You can set the pretty hostname in the live environment using the details settings 3) Setting the pretty hostname in the sysyroot is basically impossible. hostnamectl depends on hostnamed being running in order to write out the machine-info file, which is not feasible in the chroot. We can't write the machine-info file because it uses arcane, undocumented quoting rules. The man page states that the machine-info as generated by hostnamed can be sourced by a shell, but it doesn't take very long to find shell-quoted strings that are misinterpreted by hostnamed. For example, '\', which comes out as a single-quote. |