Re: Neon and reverse address lookup

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> 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 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?
>      
>      If it can be implemented easily, this sounds like a good idea. I think we
>      already had another package with the same problem.
>      
> Trying to package gnumeric comes up with a similar problem.  Its tests rely
> 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’t have that file.)

Ludo’.