Subject: ‘guix environment -C’containers lack /etc/hosts
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:53:49 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi!

Look:

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$ guix environment -C --ad-hoc coreutils -- cat /etc/hosts
cat: /etc/hosts: No such file or directory
$ guix describe
Generacio 162   Oct 01 2020 00:23:38    (nuna)
  guix 7607ace
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 7607ace5091aea0157ba5c8a508129cc5fc4f931
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I think we should add /etc/hosts with an entry for “localhost”, just
like libstore/build.cc does.

Ludo’.