Bug#276589: installing exim4-config in a pbuilder chroot fails weirdly

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-10-15 martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.34-6
> Severity: normal

> In a pbuilder sid system:

> Setting up exim4-config (4.34-6) ...
> 2004-10-14 22:14:08 Exim configuration error in line 285 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>   user mail was not found
[...]
> But:

> # getent passwd mail
> mail:*:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
[...]

Hello,
I remember hearing about similar problems with debootstrap, and cannot
find the exact explanation-mail for it, by the reason was that what
happened was not

~: chroot /somewhere
inchroot~: installexim

but some weird other stuff that had the effect that the
exim-installationscripts did not see the password data *in* *the*
chroot but in the outside system.
                   cu andreas
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