Expected Build Warnings

[Patrick]

Please review:

Expected Build Warnings

[Occq]

I would like to see the actual (short)explanation of the error.

[1 sentence explanation]. [Does not affect the build]

Should we add GRUB and dkpg error from this post?

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Maybe “root : unable to resolve host host” too?

[Cerberus]

Sounds good to me.

One suggestion:
If we introduce virtualbox as a build dependency (as it is due to vboxmanage), we should take care that it is properly installed/configured. I.e. we should also pull the respective kernel-headers. Even if we just need vboxmanage for the VM build process, pulling virtualbox without ensuring that it’s setup correctly due to missing kernel-headers doesn’t sound too good to me (might be confusing to users). That said, pulling kernel-headers wouldn’t interfere with a possible Oracle virtualbox neither, needed anyways - whether Debian or Oracle (I’m sorry that I haven’t commented yet within the respective thread - I’m a bit busy the next week(s)).

[Patrick]

@Occq

I would like to see the actual (short)explanation of the error.

[1 sentence explanation]. [Does not affect the build]

I though keeping it as simple as possible for builders and keeping the reasoning as a reference in the footnotes would be best. Some of these explanations need to be quite long so they don’t sound stupid. If it was 1 short sentence, it would still require “see footnote for more”. What do you think?

Should we add GRUB and dkpg error from this post?

Yes.

@Occq

Maybe “root : unable to resolve host host” too?

That would be a known bug,a terrible one because it slows down the build a lot and should be fixed. Please refresh my mind, did I succeed fixing this in Whonix 8?

[Patrick]

@Cerberus

One suggestion:
If we introduce virtualbox as a build dependency (as it is due to vboxmanage), we should take care that it is properly installed/configured. I.e. we should also pull the respective kernel-headers. Even if we just need vboxmanage for the VM build process, pulling virtualbox without ensuring that it’s setup correctly due to missing kernel-headers doesn’t sound too good to me (might be confusing to users). That said, pulling kernel-headers wouldn’t interfere with a possible Oracle virtualbox neither, needed anyways - whether Debian or Oracle (I’m sorry that I haven’t commented yet within the respective thread - I’m a bit busy the next week(s)).

VirtualBox is a build dependency for non-bare-metal builds already. And must remain one for future --vbox build targets.

Please look at this git commit:
https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/commit/86798e0a0cda871607681e474c02281f4eadb159

It should more or less cover your suggestion. With the only limitation, that it fails open. As the info message explains, I guess this is the best approach here. Please check.

[Occq]

I would like to see the actual (short)explanation of the error.

[1 sentence explanation]. [Does not affect the build] [/quote]
I though keeping it as simple as possible for builders and keeping the reasoning as a reference in the footnotes would be best. Some of these explanations need to be quite long so they don’t sound stupid. If it was 1 short sentence, it would still require “see footnote for more”. What do you think?

Footnote is great. The point is to give the user something more than “Don’t worry about it” and 1 sentence+footnote is a good way.

Maybe “root : unable to resolve host host” too?

That would be a known bug,a terrible one because it slows down the build a lot and should be fixed. Please refresh my mind, did I succeed fixing this in Whonix 8?

I checked the 7.7.9.8 bare metal look and the message does not appear so it seems you did fix it.

[Occq]

@Occq

I would like to see the actual (short)explanation of the error.

[1 sentence explanation]. [Does not affect the build]

I though keeping it as simple as possible for builders and keeping the reasoning as a reference in the footnotes would be best. Some of these explanations need to be quite long so they don’t sound stupid. If it was 1 short sentence, it would still require “see footnote for more”. What do you think?

Footnote is great. The point is to give the user something more than “Don’t worry about it” and 1 sentence+footnote is a good way.

Maybe “root : unable to resolve host host” too?

That would be a known bug,a terrible one because it slows down the build a lot and should be fixed. Please refresh my mind, did I succeed fixing this in Whonix 8?

I checked the 7.7.9.8 bare metal look and the message does not appear so it seems you did fix it.

It seems I was wrong and that this was not fixed.

Building 8.1 workstation

“sudo unable to resolve host debian”

[Patrick]

@Occq

I would like to see the actual (short)explanation of the error.

[1 sentence explanation]. [Does not affect the build] [/quote]
I though keeping it as simple as possible for builders and keeping the reasoning as a reference in the footnotes would be best. Some of these explanations need to be quite long so they don’t sound stupid. If it was 1 short sentence, it would still require “see footnote for more”. What do you think?

Footnote is great. The point is to give the user something more than “Don’t worry about it” and 1 sentence+footnote is a good way.

Maybe “root : unable to resolve host host” too?

That would be a known bug,a terrible one because it slows down the build a lot and should be fixed. Please refresh my mind, did I succeed fixing this in Whonix 8?

I checked the 7.7.9.8 bare metal look and the message does not appear so it seems you did fix it.

It seems I was wrong and that this was not fixed.

Building 8.1 workstation

“sudo unable to resolve host debian”

Mostly fixed in 8.6.4.2 (which will eventually become Whonix 9 after a few more changes), except for https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/blob/master/build-steps.d/2800_create-report - but I am not sure that build step is useful for bare metal users anyway.