Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:41:56 -0400, Arcady Genkin <agenkin at gmail.com> said:

    > guessing that the hyphen in the host name is causing the problem (the hostname
    > is "eddie-vm.teach.cs.toronto.edu" which defines a FAI class of the same name).
Hi Arcady,

the problem is, that FAI class names should not contain a hyphen. IIRC
this was done because cfengine classes also do not allow hyphens, but
underscore.

One solution would be to substitute the hyphen in the hostname into a
underscore, which is allowed in FAI classes.

I fear we will break more things if we allow hyphens in class names.

Any comments on this from the mailing list (CC)?
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regards Thomas