glibc-dependent applications ignore /etc/hosts file about alpine-pkg-glibc

[andyshinn]

Do we know where /etc/nsswitch.conf usually comes from? It is possible it is just missed from the generated glibc package or builder. I'll check soon to see if this is the case.

[frol]

It seems to be a base OS layout:

filesystem package owns the file in Arch Linux

$ yaourt -Qo /etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf is owned by filesystem 2015.09-1

No package is associated with the file in Debian and Ubuntu:

$ dpkg -S /etc/nsswitch.conf
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/nsswitch.conf

[frol]

Wierd, but /etc/nsswitch.conf is created as a symlink:

/ # ls -la /etc/nsswitch.conf
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            35 Feb 12 05:35 /etc/nsswitch.conf -> /home/builder/package/nsswitch.conf

[andyshinn]

Huh... I'm pretty sure I just did a cp -a... I'll look at it again in a couple days.

[frol]

cp -a will copy a symlink if it is a symlink, but in this case, we want to have just a regular file. Could you please remove -a flag?

[andyshinn]

Give the latest unreleased tag a try.

[frol]

It works!