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?
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