Re: Setting hostname while spawning pasta

[Danish Prakash <danish.prakash@suse.com>]

> At least my rudimentary shell prompt doesn't recognize the
> pasta user namespace and continues to show the same old prompt. I hope
> I'm the only one having this issue.

Sorry for the confusion, it was just me indeed. I was missing a
particular shell sequence expansion from my prompt; fixed now[1].

[1] - https://github.com/danishprakash/dotfiles/commit/3a226744dba3189bf94f40a857c8c5fa7e848e8f

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 4:52 PM Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 May 2024 13:45:51 +0530
> Danish Prakash <danish.prakash@suse.com> wrote:
>
> > > But we could still retain the existing hostname and prefix with
> > > something like 'pasta-on-' (sure, we would need to truncate at 63
> > > characters, but it shouldn't be a common case). What do you think?
> >
> > That sounds like a good idea. I didn't realize you'd be running
> > pasta-in-pasta.. but that's reasonable. Though this will be helpful,
> > I'm not entirely sure if this would override the prompts that many
> > have set. At least my rudimentary shell prompt doesn't recognize the
> > pasta user namespace and continues to show the same old prompt. I hope
> > I'm the only one having this issue.
>
> I currently have these behaviours with default prompts:
>
> - Alpine:
>   host:~$ pasta
>   host:~#
>
> - Debian:
>
>   user@host:~$ pasta
>   root@host:~#
>
> - Fedora:
>
>   [user@host ~]$ pasta
>   [root@host ~]#
>
> - openSUSE:
>
>   user@host:~> pasta
>   host:~ #
>
> so I generally have a hint of something going on, but in any case,
> changing the hostname is helpful for unfamiliar users or even just for
> the pasta-in-pasta case I mentioned.
>
> > > What I can't tell from the prompt, though, is at what "level" I'm at
> > > (at least pasta-in-pasta is something I try very commonly to reproduce
> > > pasta's behaviour with particular network setups). Having
> > > root@pasta-on-pasta-on-machine would be a nice plus.
> >
> > But in general, this idea sounds good, I'd like to take a shot at
> > this, and I can send over the patch for you to test once I'm done.
> > What do you think?
>
> Sure, thanks, looking forward to it!
>
> --
> Stefano
>