From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjXkN-0006T8-Ov for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:18:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 166D7E08C5; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9904E08C5 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.19.59] (hangover.linbsd.net [69.80.193.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512826716D for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Adding new users when using buildroot? From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4AA14BED.5010800@wildgooses.com> References: <4AA14BED.5010800@wildgooses.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:27:00 -0700 Message-Id: <1252085220.11993.11.camel@hangover> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 37b84667-1b08-4823-8c53-66732b65e45d X-Archives-Hash: 7a31d5aef0aa8500ea7ddc4f2c3d9164 On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 18:18 +0100, Ed W wrote: > Hi, I am building a small buildroot using say: > > ROOT=/var/embedded/builds/base1 PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/var/embedded/portage > emerge -v dropbear > > The end result seems to be that I get my new user added to the build > system, but not to the ROOT= system. I have seen a few people report > issues when using packages, but is this just a known limitation of > recent portage or do I need some other commandline incantations? > > Obviously plenty of other ways to solve this, but curious if there is a > solution within the portage build process? buildroot is not the best term to use when refering to portage/gentoo/embedded. It just confuses people. Reason being.. http://buildroot.org/ As for users not being added in $ROOT. Yes you are right and sadly this is a known limitation of portage/pam/and friends right now. -- Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux