Bug#753944: Bug#770648: hiredis: FTBFS: Test failure

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:31:20 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 07:17:46PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:36:04 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > > What does this "yet" even mean? Except inside pbuilder, hiredis builds fine [1].
> > > The fact that it fails *only* inside pbuilder (and the fact that hiredis is not
> > > the only package in this situation) suggests that this is indeed a pbuilder bug.
> > > I really don't see how this is release critical in any way on the part of the
> > > hiredis package.
> > While I tend to agree in general, here's an additional data point:
> > I rebuilt 0.11.0-4 in my sid amd64 cowbuilder chroot, which has
> > USENETWORK=yes (due to #753944) but firewalls off everything except
> > localhost during build. And in this environment I see a test failure:
> Ok, so I think the whole problem is that /etc/resolv.conf lists non-local name
> servers, but the build environment can't actually reach them (because of
> USENETWORK=no or the firewall).

Sounds plausible.
That fact that pbuilder copies /etc/resolv.conf into the chroot each
time also does not help :/
 
> This is, I think, the exact same problem as #759799 (which is btw severity:
> important). If the consensus is that this should be fixed in the affected
> packages (e.g. by disabling the tests), I'm all for it, but I really think that
> the effort should go into fixing pbuilder, since who knows how many packages
> are actually affected by this.

I don't know how many packages are affected but it's not the first
time I've seen questions around USENETWORK= coming up in recent bug
reports. - #769670 being one of them e.g.
 
> A simple and stupid solution would be to turn off DNS name lookups completely
> inside the build environment if USENETWORK=no (e.g. by fiddling with
> /etc/nsswitch.conf), but I'm not sure if that's really applicable to pbuilder.

Hm, don't know :)

But this should go into #753944 anyway. (CC'd)
 

Cheers,
gregor

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