mach success!

[John Dalbec <jpdalbec ysu edu>]

I managed to create an rh72u buildroot on rh80 by liberal use of

# export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libnss_files.so.2; apt-get -c 
/var/lib/mach/states/.../apt.conf -f install ...

to work around the GLIBC version problems

apt-get: relocation error: /lib/libnss_files.so.2: symbol 
_nss_files_parse_{pw,gr}ent, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 
with link time reference

which would occur every time an RPM script would invoke useradd or groupadd.

I suppose the following patch would also work (untested):
--- mach-helper.c.orig  2003-12-11 11:55:54.000000000 -0500
+++ mach-helper.c       2004-03-04 08:58:28.000000000 -0500
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
   /* do not trust user environment */
   char *env[] = { "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin",
                   "HOME=/root",
+                 "LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libnss_files.so.2",
                   NULL };
   int retval;
   char **arg;

Is there a mach-specific mailing list I should be writing to?  (I've cc:ed 
Thomas on this message.)
Thanks,
John