From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Neon and reverse address lookup Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:41:14 -0500 Message-ID: <87zjmtpd2t.fsf@netris.org> References: <20140118124847.GA6166@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4X7p-0008CR-NY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:43:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4X7k-00012C-6a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:43:53 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:53262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4X7k-000128-2m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:43:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20140118124847.GA6166@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:48:47 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge writes: > when trying to package the neon library: > http://www.webdav.org/neon/ , > the tests fail inside the chroot with > addr_reverse (reverse lookup for 127.0.0.1 failed) > > Should I disable the corresponding test? I think we should include /etc/hosts in the chroot with an entry for 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 less time and effort than disabling tests. When I suggested this on IRC, Ludovic seemed open to the idea. Thoughts? Mark