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

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Di, 2010-12-07 at 13:24 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 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').
So, did you mean a git branch with current, or a released version?

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