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

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Dec  7, 2010 at 12:17:03 +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

base-files doesn't seem to have anything to do with those.  I guess you
meant base-passwd.  Which only seems to care about passwd and group.
shadow is (I think) created by passwd, and hosts and networks by
netbase.

> the correct functioning of the glibc getproto* and getserv*
> functions, and they shouldn't require netbase to be present to
> function correctly.
> 
I don't think that follows.

Cheers,
Julien
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