From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: networkmanager hostname woes
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:34:44 +0200

> Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis:
>
>> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Subject: Re: networkmanager hostname woes
>> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:17:08 +0200
>>
>>> I don’t understand the logic in there, but a quick fix would be 
>>> to have
>>> ‘network-manager-service-type’ create /etc/hostname.
>>>
>>> What do people think?
>>
>> I agree.  What is the best way to do that?
>>
>>  - make network-manager-service extend etc-service?  I think in 
>> this
>>    case we'd need to pass the host-name to
>>    network-manager-service-type somehow?  It feels strange to make 
>> the
>>    system config's host-name a configuration parameter of
>>    network-manager-service-type just for this reason.
>>
>>  - Create /etc/hosts in network-manager activation, using the 
>> result
>>    of ‘hostname’ at that point?
>>
>>  - ...?
>
> Hmm, good points.  Maybe just create /etc/hostname unconditionally 
> from
> ‘essential-services’?  It can’t hurt, right?

I don't think so, only for people committed to extreme minimalism.  
The attached patch fixes the issue on my system.  Will it do?

Thomas