bin/172846: bsdinstall(8) - setting hostname

[J B]

The following reply was made to PR bin/172846; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: J B <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/172846: bsdinstall(8) - setting hostname
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:21:56 +0200

 This might be helpful.
 
 $ cat /usr/sbin/bsdinstall
 ...
 exec /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/$VERB $@ 2>>"$BSDINSTALL_LOG"
 ...
 
 $ cat /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/auto
 ..
 bsdinstall hostname || error
 ...
 finalconfig() {
   ...
         "Hostname")
                 bsdinstall hostname
                 finalconfig
                 ;;
   ...
 }
 
 $ cat /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/hostname
 ...
 echo "hostname=\"$HOSTNAME\"" > $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.hostname
 ...
 
 $ grep -r BSDINSTALL_TMPETC /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/
 ...
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/config:cat $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.* >>
 $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/config:rm $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.*
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/config:cp $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/* $BSDINSTALL_CHROOT/etc
 ...
 /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/hostname:echo "hostname=\"$HOSTNAME\"" >
 $BSDINSTALL_TMPETC/rc.conf.hostname
 ...
 
 jb