Bug#364517: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#364517: pbuilder complains that /etc/hosts doesn't exist

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> "pbuilder create --distribution sid" exits with the following error
> when /etc/hosts doesn't exist (it seems that this file hasn't been
> created by the Debian installation):
> 
> E: /etc/hosts does not exist, your setup is insane. fix it
> cp: cannot stat `/etc/hosts': No such file or directory
> 
> Since this file is not necessary, pbuilder shouldn't give an error.

You mean, you don't have /etc/hosts and your system is functional?
It's probably possible but I don't think pbuilder should support that
kind of setup.

Are you really sure /etc/hosts doesn't exist? We're talking about
outside of chroot here.


regards,
	junichi
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