Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Too many problems with groupadd when creating stage3
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:48:53
Message-Id: 20091015164850.14099.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Too many problems with groupadd when creating stage3 by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > > > I'm having problems again with groupadd,
3 > >
4 > > Maybe it's a problem with eutils.eclass? If it's inherited then it's
5 > > fair to expect that all it's functions will work. How to solve this
6 > > for user database changes that want to call programs in shadow?
7 >
8 > there is no problem with eutils.eclass
9
10 Because it is not intended to function for stage2? Or because it is
11 intended to assume that groupadd and friends are available?
12
13 But where is the problem? One idea is to provide another
14 implementation of these commands than the one in shadow. If that's
15 a good idea, then where should that implementation go?
16
17
18 //Peter

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