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Updated by maritawerner almost 8 years ago

For details see https://fate.suse.com/319639 https://fate.suse.com/317784 

 First check if the Feature status is "done". 

 All components of the Installer depend on correctly configured network. Current system hostname is, e.g. used as "the default" when user tries to (re)configure their network in Installer. This configuration checks validity of entered (or default) values and complain when something is wrong. This confuses users as we are expected to provide sane defaults (or nothing). 

 When Linuxrc is in charge of configuring network (e.g. when installation is started with ifcfg=*=dhcp or when Linuxrc just needs network) the inst-sys then resolves own hostname to the ip address of "first" network interface. It confuses all tools which depends on the resolver's result (e.g. hostname --fqdn) 

 Proper behavior should be (very simple one out of several possible scenarios): 

     use a hostname provided by DHCP server (if any) or 
     return "not resolvable" error 

 The question is: What to use as a system name (e.g., for command line) in inst-sys? It seems that "installer" or "suse" would just do the job. 

 For SLE 12 SP1 it was hotfixed on yast side (see https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=946047 for reference) 

 Purpose of this request is to get proper fix into linuxrc and to drop above hotfix from yast, so affrected pieces are (probably): Linuxrc, installation-images and yast2

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