[Pkg-exim4-users] dc_minimaldns not working?

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:29:41PM +0200, Lothar Ketterer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:45:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I am very reluctant to give a "Unix administration course" in a
> > warning printed by an arbitrary tool. This usually leads to people not
> > reading the text because it's longer than two lines.
> 
> Ok, that's reasonable.

This has been committed to svn:
Index: debian/debconf/update-exim4.conf
===================================================================
--- debian/debconf/update-exim4.conf    (revision 2257)
+++ debian/debconf/update-exim4.conf    (revision 2258)
@@ -357,6 +357,9 @@
        seed_macro "DC_minimaldns" "1"
        if guessed_name="$(hostname --fqdn | lowerpipe | check_ascii_pipe | grep '\.')" ; then
                seed_macro "MAIN_HARDCODE_PRIMARY_HOSTNAME" "$guessed_name"
+               if echo $guessed_name | grep -q '\.'; then
+                       errormessage "hostname --fqdn did not return a fully qualified name, dc_minimaldns will not work. Please fix your /etc/hosts setup."
+               fi
        fi
 fi

Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog    (revision 2257)
+++ debian/changelog    (revision 2258)
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
   * remove quotes from the init script at the sake of probably
     less robustness. Thanks to Laurent Fousse for spotting this issue
     in lsb-base 3.2-9.
+  * update-exim4.conf: print a warning if dc_minimaldns and hostname
+    --fqdn does not print a fully qualified name. Thanks to Lothar
+    Ketterer. Closes: #476249

   [ Robert Millan ]
   * Process acl_local_deny_exceptions ACL before rejecting a message in SPF

Greetings
Marc

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