Bug#486747: pbuilder-uml should not always copy in /etc/resolv.conf, hostname, hosts.

Mattia Rizzolo mattia at mapreri.org
Sun Nov 15 18:07:24 UTC 2015


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Hi dkg! :)

*a phontom the past arise*

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:52:24PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Currently, in /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-modules, the function
> copy_local_configuration() transfers /etc/resolv.conf (among other
> files) from the host system to the pbuilder.

> I'm not sure the right way to resolve the problem, but here are some
> ideas:
> 
>  * an environment variable which says where to fetch the "local
>    configuration" from (so users could redirect away from the host's
>    /etc/)?

There is now CONFDIR, where you can drop files from where then will be
copied to the chroot.
So you can drop there all the files and they will be used instead of the
system one, maybe just empty files.

>  * a command-line flag that could direct pbuilder to not
>    copy_local_configuration() at all?

sounds unneeded to me.

> Thanks for pbuilder, and for supporting the uml flavor of it as well.
> It's an incredibly useful tool.

Out of curiosity: have you used uml "recently"?

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