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

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 12:57 -0400, P. Levine wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 04:09 AM, Sven Rebhan wrote:
> > 2010/6/11 Marcus Priesch <marcus@priesch.priv.at>:
> >> Hi sven,
> >>
> >> wouldnt it be enough to have the patch included in gentoo's shadow
> >> ebuild - as i think its mainly relevant for gentoo folks - at least in
> >> the meantime, until the patch gets accepted upstream ?!
> > 
> > Well, talk to the Gentoo maintainer of the shadow suite. :-) IIRC, it was
> > clearly said, that the patch has to go through mainstream, but you can
> > try nevertheless. IMHO the patch really _should_ go upstream and be
> > reviewed there as it might be relevant for security stuff.
> > 
> >> as i assume this patch alone is not enough - as it needs tweaking the
> >> eclass providing the eadduser & co functions also ... and therefore it's
> >> hard to put in an overlay ... or ?!?!
> > 
> > The procedure would be:
> > 1. Get the patch accepted either upstream or in the portage tree.
> > 2. Find a good check to distinguish --chroot enabled and disabled shadow
> > 3. Modify the eclass accordingly.
> > 
> > So, start with 1. and the rest will happen automatically... ;-)
> > 
> > Sven
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm currently trying to upgrade the patch to the latest shadow svn head.
> 
> I'm having a problem that I might have to post on gentoo bugs, but I'd
> like to post it here to make sure I'm not overlooking anything.  I
> started a new cross-build of armv4l-softfloat-linux-gnueabi with
> crossdev.  After installing the toolchain, using emerge-wrapper --init,
> modifying make.conf, etc..., all emerges with
> ROOT=/usr/armv4l-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/ in the environment cause
> portage to use the --quiet flag.  I don't have the flag in
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS.  I've tried deleting /var/cache/edb and
> ${ROOT}var/cache/edb, to no avail.  I can't use FEATURES="python-trace"
> to debug because the --quiet flag seems to override it.  All thats
> visible is "myopts {'--quiet': True, '--buildpkg': True, '--verbose':
> True, '--oneshot': True, '--debug': True, '--root-deps':'rdeps'}".  I
> already searched gentoo bugs.  Does anyone know if there was a change in
> portage that would cause this, or am I overlooking something?
> 
> -P. Levine


Check to see if the version of crossdev you are using has the -q flag
in /usr/bin/cross-emerge. If so you can remove it from there.

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux