remove /etc/hosts from qubes-whonix package

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ID: 171
PHID: PHID-TASK-rog5ls3chmkkpf4ddzzw
Author: Patrick
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Why ship qubes-whonix/etc/hosts at master · nrgaway/qubes-whonix · GitHub ?

I think those are likely to conflict with anon-base-files (GitHub - Kicksecure/dist-base-files: base files for distributions - several important miscellaneous files, such as /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, /var/lib/dbus/machine-id and more), with https://github.com/Whonix/anon-base-files/blob/master/etc/hosts.anondist

Can you remove those from qubes-whonix package or are they required for something? I think at the moment those files are not in use anyhow. Due to anon-base-files use of config-package-dev and .anondist extension, those will take precedence.

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nrgaway

2015-02-16 06:13:36 UTC

Currently the qubes-whonix package is the last packages to be installed when creating the Whonix templates.

The process of creating a Whonix template goes something like this:

• Create initial Debian image (debootstrap)
• Configure locale, keyboard
• Prepare image for Whonix (install / configure required depends)
• Install Whonix using Whonix build scripts in chroot ENV
• Install additional software as expected for qubes-templates (some gnome stuff, etc)
• Install systemd; any other repo definitions
• Install all required Qubes packages
• Install python-guimessages, whonix-setup-wizard then last qubes-whonix

The /etc/hosts is then required to remove default Qubes hosts and therefore is required or Whonix will report an error message that hosts is not setup correctly.

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Patrick

2015-02-16 21:55:05 UTC

So one of Qubes’ packages recreates it?

I advice to fix this in a later version of Qubes upstream and in the qubes-whonix version.