Re: [gentoo-embedded] emerge --root : users not created

[Daniel Glaser]

Hi,
> ...
> Looking at useradd.c at least four filenames should be changed;
> passwd, shadow, group and sgroup.
>
> The password db abstraction does allow easy changing of the file
> names, but home directory, skel directory, mail spool and probably
> more should also be changed, so maybe it makes sense to simply have
> useradd call chroot() according to an option early on in main()?
>
 This will definitely not work on cross targets? I think, there is not a
real workaround for post-installes that need to run on the target
plattform, according to my experience. I always emerged such packages on
the target itself, leading sometimes to very high compilation times.

The cleanest way would be an execute stack that gets created/extended
while cross building and processed when the target starts the next time,
but this would mean a really huge work amount to implement in ebuilds
and the system itself.

Cheers,
Daniel