On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:19:35AM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > Daniel: What version of pbuilder are you using?  If it's more than a
> > year old, then upgrading will probably fix this.  If not, then either
> > that fix has regressed in pbuilder regression, or else something more
> > complex is going on.
> 
> I was still able to reproduce it with the latest pbuilder version
> (0.228.4); and even though my previous pbuilder version was somewhat
> out of date, it was still new enough to have the code setting up an
> "lo" interface.  So, as you said, something else must be going on
> here.

OK, thanks for checking with the latest.

> Incidentally, the build did work until recently - the last version I
> have with a successful build is 1.2.23-1, and I think it started
> failing with the 1.4.* series.

As I said above:

| The reproducible build used to work but it looks like it regressed in
| 1.3.4-1:
| 
| https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/history/xapian-core.html
| 
| That's very suspicious as that's the first version packaged for Debian
| which used getaddrinfo() (1.2.x used gethostbyname(), etc), and the
| history shows that 1.2.x continued to build OK at the same time.  So
| that seems to point firmly to this not being a pbuilder regression.
| 
| But I've no idea what the cause is.  My only thoughts are that perhaps
| there's only IPv6 loopback (but then 1.2.x wouldn't work), or that
| getaddrinfo() is interacting badly with the restricted networking.

One thought - is /etc/gai.conf present in the chroot with any uncommented
content?

Cheers,
    Olly

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