Bug 5302

Summary:	configure computer name / hostname and domain name not user-friendly
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Andrew <theamazingchiepoo>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ftg, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-net	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Andrew 2012-04-09 08:56:45 CEST

Description of problem:

Unable to configure computer name / hostname and domain name in installer if not connected to a network at time of installation. Unable to find anywhere within the GUI of doing so afterwards.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Cauldron Beta 2

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Perform installation offline

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-09 13:52:31 CEST

You can do it in the resume step (like in in drakconf) but indeed it's not user-friendly.

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Summary: Unable to configure computer name / hostname and domain name in installer => configure computer name / hostname and domain name not user-friendly
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2
Severity: normal => enhancement

Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-10 11:21:41 CEST

Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => drakx-net

Andrew 2012-04-10 19:28:03 CEST

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 2

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-10 19:29:37 CEST

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Target Milestone|---                         |Mageia 2

please note that we are in development freeze to this will not happen

Comment 3 Andrew 2012-04-10 21:35:01 CEST

(In reply to comment #2)
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Target Milestone|---                         |Mageia 2
> 
> please note that we are in development freeze to this will not happen

When's the earliest this can become possible then?

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:04:45 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Manuel Hiebel 2012-06-12 21:29:55 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => mageia
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => bugsquad
Target Milestone: Mageia 2 => ---

Comment 5 Andrew 2013-02-26 09:19:38 CET

Bug still present in Mageia 3 Cauldron... looks like no one got around to it. How depressing

Comment 6 Frank Griffin 2013-05-26 21:11:10 CEST

Maybe I don't understand your problem correctly, but drakconnect (MCC Add/Edit Network Interface) has a panel that displays the default hostname chosen (localhost.localdomain) and allows you to change it, or indicate that you want DHCP to accept a hostname provided by the DHCP server or generate a unique one from the assigned IP address.

It's true, we don't put a panel up asking you to name your computer, but technically that would conflict with the fact that in most companies hostnames are set through DHCP, and are tied to whatever network interface interacts with the DHCP server.  

If you had a universal setting, the drakconnect dialog would still override it (as will NetworkManager), and we'd get a flood of complaints saying "I set my hostname to XYZ and something changed it".

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 7 Dick Gevers 2014-11-16 09:45:55 CET

Since nothing is happening, and as ftg@roadrunner.com described how there isn't any real need for what you ask.

So I am going to be presumptuous and close as wontfix, as my guess is otherwise this will stay open for years unattended. Sorry!

And drakhost in MCC or called by itself can do afterward what you dud jot find.

If anybody disagrees, shoot me and reopen.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX