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Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
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[Error] Wrong hostname for Debian on Fedora host #1406

Closed slimhk45 closed 2 weeks ago

slimhk45 commented 1 month ago

My host is Bluefin (a battery-included Fedora Silverblue distribution) and I use Distrobox 1.7.2.1.

I tried to create a Debian distrobox on my Bluefin host using this command:

distrobox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:latest --name debian --home /var/home/user/Debian/ --nvidia

distrobox enter debian

and it returned the wrong hostname user@fedora instead of user@debian.

To solve this problem I need to enforce the hostname I want:

distrobox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:latest --name debian --hostname debian --home /var/home/user/Debian/ --nvidia

Is it possible to enforce the hostname automatically for Debian distrobox on Fedora host? My problem is that I use BoxBuddy for managing my distroboxes and BoxBuddy is using the first command that doesn't enforce the hostname. Hence it is not possible to use BoxBuddy to create proper Debian distroboxes on Fedora host.

The BoxBuddy maintainer redirect me to you to do upstream change.

See here https://github.com/Dvlv/BoxBuddyRS/issues/94

89luca89 commented 2 weeks ago

This is the new behaviour of distrobox as of version 1.7.2+

This is automatic as changing hostname will break startupwmclass on gnome/kde for exported apps