diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 37c0082c..292cc080 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.408.40) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Cody Shepherd ]
+  * Increasing modularity in relocation of /etc/resolv.conf to enable users
+    of live-build/functions to manipulate /etc/resolv.conf in a more
+    granular and future-proof way.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 01 Nov 2018 10:10:12 -0700
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.408.39) xenial; urgency=medium
 
   * Backport support for building ubuntu-core images with ubuntu-image (using
diff --git a/live-build/functions b/live-build/functions
index cbe108f4..55f700f3 100644
--- a/live-build/functions
+++ b/live-build/functions
@@ -77,6 +77,17 @@ mount_image() {
     return 0
 }
 
+setup_resolvconf() {
+    local mountpoint=${1}
+    mv "${mountpoint}/etc/resolv.conf" resolv.conf.tmp
+    cp /etc/resolv.conf "${mountpoint}/etc/resolv.conf"
+}
+
+recover_resolvconf() {
+    local mountpoint=${1}
+    mv resolv.conf.tmp "${mountpoint}/etc/resolv.conf"
+}
+
 setup_mountpoint() {
     local mountpoint="$1"
 
@@ -86,8 +97,7 @@ setup_mountpoint() {
     mount -t tmpfs none "$mountpoint/tmp"
     mount -t tmpfs none "$mountpoint/var/lib/apt"
     mount -t tmpfs none "$mountpoint/var/cache/apt"
-    mv "$mountpoint/etc/resolv.conf" resolv.conf.tmp
-    cp /etc/resolv.conf "$mountpoint/etc/resolv.conf"
+    setup_resolvconf "${mountpoint}"
     chroot "$mountpoint" apt-get update
 
 }
@@ -103,7 +113,7 @@ teardown_mountpoint() {
                       { print \$2 }" | LC_ALL=C sort -r); do
         umount $submount
     done
-    mv resolv.conf.tmp "$mountpoint/etc/resolv.conf"
+    recover_resolvconf "${mountpoint}"
 }
 
 mount_partition() {