Bug#580086: Messes up /etc/hosts on every call

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

That's a good question.  I'm not sure if there is an existing way to
override hosts. Do you see any of the hooks run in the right timing
for overriding hosts?

Currently copy_local_configuration isn't configurable.


At Mon, 03 May 2010 16:43:43 +0200,
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.181
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using pbuilder in an environment where local hostnames are
> resolved via NIS. Since I do not want to pollute the builder chroot
> with the NIS packages and don't want all hosts to be visible inside
> the chroot anyway I have added the hostname for the local debian
> mirror in /etc/hosts inside the chroot. Checking the base.tgz manually
> I get:
> 
> $ cat etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 192.168.55.101  ql-dev
> 192.168.53.104  ql-bak
> 
> But when I run pbuilder --login or --build I get:
> 
> root at ql-dev:/# cat etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 192.168.55.101  ql-dev
> 192.168.53.101  ql-dev
> 
> which is the systems /etc/hosts file. It seems that every time
> pbuilder unpacks the base.tgz it copies /etc/hosts <chroot/etc/hosts.
> 
> 
> So how am I supposed to set a hosts entry?
> 
> MfG
> 	Goswin
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5-book-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
> ii  cdebootstrap                  0.5.5      Bootstrap a Debian system
> ii  coreutils                     8.4-1      GNU core utilities
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
> ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii  debootstrap                   1.0.20     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
> ii  wget                          1.12-1.1   retrieves files from the web
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
> ii  devscripts                    2.10.61    scripts to make the life of a Debi
> ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
> ii  sudo                          1.7.2p1-1  Provide limited super user privile
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
> pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
> pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
> pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- debconf information excluded
> 
> 
> 
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