On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 08:41:19 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: >> Now the funny question: Does traffic on the loopback interface count >> as network access? A daemon started during build to run tests is >> certainly okay. What about traffic to other daemons, most prominentely >> named? Running "hostname --fqdn" unless this is handled by /etc/hosts >> already? Also, I remember a certain package (name withheld) did a >> *lot* of DNS traffic in the test suite, so far nobody has shown >> concerns about this. > > https://bugs.debian.org/813471
I think what we actually want is for the build to be self-contained. So nothing inside the build environment (defined as dpkg-buildpackage or debian/rules and all sub-processes) should contact any processes, network resources nor use any files outside the build environment (modulo /dev/null and the like). -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
