Re: Network access during build
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
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