The petnames wordlist added in [1] is Apache-2.0 and this
causes problems with the distribution of systemd as the
GPL-2 and Apache-2.0 are considered incompatible by the FSF.
So this commit replaces the previous wordlist with
a new one:
- weather (basic english weather adjectives)
- colors (basic english color names)
- worlds (planets, moons, minor bodies of the solar system)
All common vocabulary and compiled for this project, not taken
from anywhere.
An example with the new list:
- wintry-rust-dione-9393
- warm-yellow-saturn-39f9
The "worlds" are picked on the following principles:
- well-known
- memorable
- short(ish)
- cool
This is why e.g. we have "thetis" (an astroid) instead of
"tethys" (a moon): easier to spell and more well known.
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/42566
This commit adds support to /etc/hostname for substitution
of $ wordlists from {/etc,/run,/usr/lib}/systemd/hostname-wordlist.
The first $ will lookup hostname-wordlist/1, the next
hostname-wordlist/2 and so on.
With that we can do a petname [1] style hostname in systemd, e.g.
below a possible expansion for a hostname template:
$-$-$-???? -> wildly-happy-octopus-92a9
The substitution of words is stable (based on machine-id) but
not persisted, it is picked on every boot via a stable file
offset so the operation is cheap. But this means that if the
wordlist changes the hostname would change. The next commit
will add the pattern to the firstboot.hostname credential which
is persistet with the resolved names to avoid this issue.
This also includes a wordlist from the "petname" project
that can be optionally installed.
Thanks to Dustin Kirkland for this wonderful project.
[1] https://github.com/dustinkirkland/petname
Michael Vogt