Bug#753944: pbuilder: USENETWORK=no breaks package builds

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:00:26 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> >That doesn't match my understanding and experience. AFAIK, there is
> >no internet access (available|allowed) but connections to localhost
> >are fine.
> Hm, maybe something like, enabling lo0 in the chroot before
> running the build itself – could that work?
> 
> Not really…
> 
> /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow-squeeze/{,usr/}*bin/{ifconfig,ip} do not
> exist. Are there any other tools that could be used for this? (squeeze
> being the first version with “unshare -n”, AFAICT.)

Sorry, no idea either.
 
> In case of doubt, just build those packages with USENETWORK=yes…
> at least for now.

That's what I'm doing since I discovered this regression :)

But breaking the build environment of maintainers still doesn't sound
like a good idea; and I already had to point out this issue to at
least 3 people after they were confused by failing builds. This
doesn't scale, at least not for me.


Cheers,
gregor


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