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Yep, seems like a known bug |
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Also the bug exists if you merge in a binary package I believe? |
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Quite annoying - workarounds would be highly appreciated! |
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Ed |
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Shinkan wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> I posted this on gentoo-user initially, but someone answered and |
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> advised to post this to embedded : |
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> I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there |
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> is nothing that I miss. |
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> Let's say I have a /target dir. |
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> If I do 'emerge --root=/target <someport>' (cross-emerge), and that |
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> <someport> is supposed to create users (like vixie-cron, clamav or |
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> many others), users are not created on /target. I can verify that by |
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> chrooting on /target and making something that requires this user |
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> (such as launching clamd for clamav), or simply by looking at |
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> /target/etc/passwd to see that there's no expected users. |
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> Am I missing somethings or is this really a bug ? |
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> Here is "Willie Wong" answer : |
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> If you don't get a better answer here, you should ask the embedded |
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> group. But I think it maybe a bug: |
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> Looking at eutils.eclass, in function enewuser, it explicitly checks |
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> for whether the shell specified is available in ${ROOT}, but when it |
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> comes time to create the actual user, it calls the system useradd, |
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> which I think will add the user to /etc, and not ${ROOT}/etc... |
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> Though, I cannot right now think of how to actually change it so that |
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> it will create the appropriate accounts in a modified ${ROOT}. AFAIK |
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> useradd does not support this. It may require re-implementing useradd |
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> in portage? Which will just be silly. |
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> Perhaps ${ROOT} is not designed to be used the way you intend to use |
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> it? It looks like you are building embedded or cross-compiled, right? |
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> Maybe a work-around is to do everything in a CHROOT? |
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> Anyway, ask gentoo-embedded to see if there's any work arounds, and |
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> maybe ask gentoo-dev to clarify on what $ROOT is used for? |
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> Thanks in advance. |
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> -- |
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> Pierre. |
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> "Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. |
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> I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think |
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> twice." - Bill Watterson |
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