Hi I'm trying to apt-get update in my freshly installed scratchbox, I get the error that it cannot resolve the name
The scratchbox's nsswitch.conf file contains
hosts: dns

and my scratchbox's resolv.conf is the same as the host (debian kernel 2.6.21)

Anybody has encountered the problem? I'm stuck on this since 2 hours.. Google didn't help either.

Did you edit the apt-get source list to point to the maemo version 3.2 repositories instead of the 3.1?

Thanks for your answer.
Wanting to install the Maemo 3.2 sdk I followed the instructions here
http://repository.maemo.org/stable/bora/INSTALL.txt
which says that I first need a 3.1 fully installed env. So I grabbed the 3.1 install script. All when well but not the repo update. Did I miss something? mmmhh
Anyway apt-get is the only app that does not resolve well, wget works to reach repository.maemo.org
The next step would be the 3.2 install script. what is the new source list for 3.2? Isn't it on the same server?
Maybe I just go on but this broken apt-get surpises me..

I had this problem when I installed the SDK. The problem was in my /etc/resolv.conf file. Try replacing the /etc/resolv.conf in your scratchbox environment (for each target) with the /etc/resolv.conf from outside the scratchbox environment.

Thanks but they were all the same.
I ended up mirroring their repository locally and using file:/// in sources.list and now having a working environment.

A while back, I also had a problem with my /etc/nsswitch.conf file (in the SDK environments). My memory is a little hazy, but I seem to recall editing the "hosts" line to remove entries that contained the string "mdns4". I think Debian installs with mdns4 by default, and the SDK has a problem with mdns4. Give that a shot.

gnuile YOU ARE DA MAN
I thought I had modified them all but when rechecking I had missed some probably.
Thanks a lot for helping with this