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Subject: Re: Neon and reverse address lookup
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:59:55 +0100
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:45:08PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>      On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:41:14AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>      > I think we should include /etc/hosts in the chroot with an entry f=
or
>      > localhost.  We might also need /etc/nsswitch.conf; I'm not sure.  =
I see
>      > no reason not to do this, and I suspect it would ultimately take l=
ess
>      > time and effort than disabling tests.
>      >=20
>      > When I suggested this on IRC, Ludovic seemed open to the idea.
>      >=20
>      >    Thoughts?
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      If it can be implemented easily, this sounds like a good idea. I thi=
nk we
>      already had another package with the same problem.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
> Trying to package gnumeric comes up with a similar problem.  Its tests re=
ly
> on dbus.  Which it seems needs a file /etc/machine-id

What exactly needs it, dbus-daemon?  (May machine runs dbus-daemon 1.4
and I don=E2=80=99t have that file.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.