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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2006-04-24 20:23:54 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> You mean, you don't have /etc/hosts and your system is functional?

Yes. I suppose it was working thanks to the DNS.

> It's probably possible but I don't think pbuilder should support that
> kind of setup.

In this case, the Debian install system (this was debootstrap in
my case) should make sure that a /etc/hosts is created. Or the
installation manual[*] should be fixed: it says to set up /etc/fstab,
/etc/network/interfaces, /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hostname, but
there's nothing about /etc/hosts.

[*] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs04.html.en

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

Yes, I checked and was quite surprised. So, it didn't exist until
I created one to use pbuilder.

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