Re: [gentoo-embedded] Adding new users when using buildroot?

[Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>]

Sven Rebhan wrote:
> Anyway, if you follow http://gentoo.mindzoo.de/index.cgi/wiki/Cross%20Install
> you will find the command
>
> find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild' -exec grep -qF 'pkg_postinst()' {}
> \; -exec ebuild {} postinst \;
>
> which reruns all postinstall sections of your cross-compiled system on
> the target
> and thus also creates the users.
>   


That seems like a good idea, but I think the docs say that user creation 
should be in pkg_setup() and certainly this is the case with dropbear?  
Seems a bit dangerous to re-run pkg_setup for every package...?

I also noticed that since I have only busybox in my final build and it's 
got pretty lousy support for adduser I may need to inject directly into 
/etc/

Actually the docs here 
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/users-and-groups/index.html 
suggest that this IS supposed to work inside the sandbox and hence we 
might reasonably expect it to work with ROOT= set.  However, as Ned 
says, it seems not to work right now...

Oh well

Thanks

Ed W