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Thanks, I'll do that ! |
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2009/12/14 Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> |
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:02:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Shinkan squawked: |
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> > I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there is |
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> > 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 many |
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> > others), users are not created on /target. I can verify that by chrooting |
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> on |
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> > /target and making something that requires this user (such as launching |
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> > clamd for clamav), or simply by looking at /target/etc/passwd to see that |
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> > there's no expected users. |
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> > Am I missing somethings or is this really a bug ? |
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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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> Cheers, |
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> W |
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> -- |
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> A plateau is a high form of flattery. |
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Pierre. |
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wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice." - |
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