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diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.7/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.7/default.nix index f33f95fda9f..7eb34e88899 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.7/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.7/default.nix @@ -16,6 +16,31 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { inherit (stdenv) is64bit; + patches = [ + /* Fix for NIXPKGS-79: when doing host name lookups, when + nsswitch.conf contains a line like + + hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 + + don't return an error when mdns4_minimal can't be found. This + is a bug in Glibc: when a service can't be found, NSS should + continue to the next service unless "UNAVAIL=return" is set. + ("NOTFOUND=return" refers to the service returning a NOTFOUND + error, not the service itself not being found.) The reason is + that the "status" variable (while initialised to UNAVAIL) is + outside of the loop that iterates over the services, the + "files" service sets status to NOTFOUND. So when the call to + find "mdns4_minimal" fails, "status" will still be NOTFOUND, + and it will return instead of continuing to "dns". Thus, the + line + + hosts: mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 + + does work because "status" will contain UNAVAIL after the + failure to find mdns4_minimal. */ + ./nss-skip-unavail.patch + ]; + # `--with-tls --without-__thread' enables support for TLS but causes # it not to be used. Required if we don't want to barf on 2.4 # kernels. Or something. |