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authorRoger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>2012-06-24 23:00:36 +0100
committerRoger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>2012-06-24 23:00:36 +0100
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man: Update FAQ for NSSDATABASES
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@@ -32,10 +32,13 @@ this is not always desirable, particularly if installing a package in the
chroot creates system users and groups which are not present on the host, since
these will disappear next time the databases are copied over.
.PP
-The suggested workaround here is to disable the copying by removing or
-commenting out the databases in the NSSDATABASES file in the script-config file
-for the chroot. These are \fI\*[SCHROOT_SYSCONF_DIR]/default/nssdatabases\fP and
-\fI\*[SCHROOT_SYSCONF_DIR]/default/config\fP by default.
+The suggested workaround here is to disable the copying. This may be achieved
+by setting the \f[CI]setup.nssdatabases\fP key to be empty in
+\fIschroot.conf\fP. In prior schroot releases, this was done by commenting out
+the NSSDATABASES file for the chroot
+(\fI\*[SCHROOT_SYSCONF_DIR]/default/config\fP by default). The database list
+may also be customised by editing the file containing the database list
+(\fI\*[SCHROOT_SYSCONF_DIR]/default/nssdatabases\fP by default).
.PP
In the future, we will be working on a better scheme for keeping the host and
chroot databases in sync which can merge entries rather than overwriting the