[gentoo-dev] user.eclass ignores ROOT/SYSROOT

[Peter Stuge]

Hi,

I'm trying something out over here and I'm surprised to find that
acct-group/* do not work with ROOT+SYSROOT != "/".

Should I file yet another bug about this?

I suppose the limitation is in user.eclass, but what about the 11 bugs
already filed about exactly this problem?

They are easy to see in the dup bug list at https://bugs.gentoo.org/53269

Unfortunately mgorny closed 53269 WONTFIX because GLEP-27 is Deferred,
causing all dup and dep bugs to be forgotten. Sad panda.


--8<-- reproduce
# export r=$(mktemp -d)
# ROOT=$r SYSROOT=$r strace -fe execve emerge baselayout acct-group/ftp 2>&1 | grep groupadd
[pid 13269] execve("/usr/sbin/groupadd", ["groupadd", "-r", "-g", "21", "ftp"], 0x5d7e299e2340 /* 227 vars */) = 0
groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.
 *               groupadd -r ${opts} "${egroup}" || die
 *               groupadd -r ${opts} "${egroup}" || die
-->8--

In my particular case -R $r would work just fine, but as can be seen
in several of those 11 dup bugs it is not a general solution.


Any ideas on how to solve this?


Thanks

//Peter