On Sunday 06 July 2014 18:02:10 gregor herrmann wrote: > > This is a bug in your package… network access is generally > > not available during package builds on Debian buildds either, > > and so should it be for cowbuilder too. > > That doesn't match my understanding and experience. AFAIK, there is > no internet access (available|allowed) but connections to localhost > are fine.
Agreed.
If pbuilder/cowbuilder denies access to localhost by default, I think the
following may happen:
- people using pbuilder will set USENETWORK to yes (heck, we may even have to
set this in debian-perl documents for newbies). This setting will become
common knowledge, so you'll be back to square one
or
- people will disable tests using local network (which would be a shame since
buildd allow it). End user will find more network related bugs. Even more so
on non common archs
or
- people will use alternative like sbuild.
A middle ground may comes from gregoa's setup:
- pbuilder has USENETWORK=yes
- a set of ip table rules denies internet access
I guess that this set of ip tables rules could be applied with a new value to
USENETWORK ("local" ?) I would not mind this value becomes the default.
Thoughts ?
All the best
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