Package signing fails if the host doesn't have an entry in /etc/hosts

[skybert]

But first of all, thanks for a great script!

Now back to the issue at hand: the package signing fails if the host doesn't have an entry in /etc/hosts. Or more specifically, oab-java.sh uses hostname --fqdn, but this doesn't return anything if the host's name (as set in /etc/hostname and returned by a simple hostname) isn't available.

 [x] Create GnuPG configuration hostname: Name or service not known                  
hostname: Name or service not known                          
success
 [x] Start generating entropy success
 [x] Creating signing key failed
 [i] Showing the last 5 lines from the logfile (/tmp/j/oab-java6/oab-java.sh.log)...
 [x] Creating signing key   gpg: keyring `/var/local/oab/gpg/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/var/local/oab/gpg/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: /var/local/oab/gpg-key.conf:5: missing argument
30511's retcode: 2
failed

I suggest enhancing the script to falling back to simple hostname output in case the hostname --fqdn fails.

Workaround for others that might experience this: simply do:

# echo 127.0.1.1 $HOSTNAME >> /etc/hosts

then remove the directory oab-java.sh created (/var/local/oab) and re-run the script.

Cheers,

-Torstein

[jab416171]

That should be 127.0.0.1

[skybert]

Why is that important? 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1 works equally well on everything I've thrown at it.

[skull-squadron]

Some operating systems implement a loopback host address only for 127.0.0.1 while others implement the entire 127./8 range, but in either case the range is reserved for that purpose. RFC 3330

Try this on a Mac: ping 127.255.255.254

Then, try it on Linux.