GNU bug report logs - #43762
‘guix environment -C’ containers lack /etc/hosts

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 13:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: ‘guix environment -C’
 containers lack /etc/hosts
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:53:49 +0200

Hi!

Look:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ 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
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I think we should add /etc/hosts with an entry for “localhost”, just
like libstore/build.cc does.

Ludo’.
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