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

["P. Levine" <plevine457@verizon.net>]

On 06/17/2010 03:39 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:
> 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.
> 

Wow, I completely misread the last line.
Thanks.

-P. Levine