[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#606143: Bug#606143: netbase: Installation in build chroot breaks package builds

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Di, 2010-12-07 at 12:17 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:01:46PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec  7, 2010 at 11:52:56 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > 
> > > The examples above show schroot creating the NSS services
> > > database file whenever run.  This the intended default
> > > behaviour (networking is broken without it, and you also
> > > generally want all the NSS databases inside the chroot to
> > > match those on the outside).
> > > 
> > I think that's a broken default, at least for services and protocols.
> > It's easy enough to install netbase in the chroot if needed, and very
> > unlikely that those files have local modifications.  (Which incidentally
> > is also why they're conffiles, unlike passwd, shadow, group, hosts and
> > networks.)
> 
> This is part of the problem.  They shouldn't be conffiles, and
> they should be installed in exactly the same way as all of the
> other NSS database files (in base-files).  They are required for
> the correct functioning of the glibc getproto* and getserv*
> functions, and they shouldn't require netbase to be present to
> function correctly.
Shouldn't we clone this bug to base-files and netbase then, and request
a change of file handling or making netbase essential?

> 
> That historic mistake aside, sbuild should now handle this
> correctly.  The apport build log posted on -devel by Loïc
> Minier showed that it works correctly in current sbuild.

Well, 'current' is relative. For me, it's unstable; for many others,
it's stable. If it's git master for you, then there is a problem
somewhere (as that would be 'next').

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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

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