Bug#807046: pbuilder: how does name resolution work

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 07:55:37PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> To start with, this bug report is mostly a question. I'm not sure if
> this is really a bug, and if so, is it warranted against pbuilder.

Yeah, I got a bug, I made a quite important error :\
https://bugs.debian.org/806386


> Currently, the way pbuilder works is that it looks into the
> /etc/resolv.conf in its chroot. From it, it determines its name
> resolver.
> 
> To keep things simple, for years I ran the dnsmasq caching server locally on my box.
> It helped me to have a static name server, localhost, for that puprose.
> 
> If not using a caching nameserver, how are users supposed to use
> pbuilder ? Are they expected to ensure valid name servers are defined ?
> I can't see any way to relate the host's nameserver listing into the
> chroot.

The idea is to use whatever is on the host's /etc/resolv.conf (unless
you want something fancy and then maybe you use CONFDIR and whatnot you
like to use)

I plan to do what I described in comment #10 as soon as I've some time
(I was in the reproducible meeting in Athens this week).
Do you have something to add or maybe point out something I should take
in consideration before that?

If you agree that's actually the same bug please merge them.


Sorry for the inconvincience and thanks for reaching out! :)

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