Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:15:35PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: >> The question rather is: Why does sbuild not run apt in the chroot? I >> guess the answer is: "Because upstream's (i.e. the one used on the >> official buildds) does not either, and there was no convincing argument >> to change it". >> >> (Perhaps an answer to your above question is: "So that maintainers don't >> get silly ideas like apt-getting/wgetting something during the build", >> btw) >> >> Now, if you (or somebody else) comes up with a patch, we might consider >> including it. >> >> However, I am a bit worried that this might break sbuild on hurd-i386, >> as networking inside the chroot is AFAIK not known to work reliably on >> the Hurd, and users of sbuild have reported trouble with it (though >> perhaps they were unrelated). >> > > The answer is of course: support both operating mode and use an > option or command line flag to enable the required one.
How does an option like $chroot_networking, or similar, sound? -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]