Thanks, I'll do that !

2009/12/14 Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:02:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Shinkan squawked:
> > I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there is
> > nothing that I miss.
> >
> > Let's say I have a /target dir.
> > If I do 'emerge --root=/target <someport>' (cross-emerge), and that
> > <someport> is supposed to create users (like vixie-cron, clamav or many
> > others), users are not created on /target. I can verify that by chrooting
> on
> > /target and making something that requires this user (such as launching
> > clamd for clamav), or simply by looking at /target/etc/passwd to see that
> > there's no expected users.
> >
> > Am I missing somethings or is this really a bug ?
> >
>
> If you don't get a better answer here, you should ask the embedded
> group. But I think it maybe a bug:
>
> Looking at eutils.eclass, in function enewuser, it explicitly checks
> for whether the shell specified is available in ${ROOT}, but when it
> comes time to create the actual user, it calls the system useradd,
> which I think will add the user to /etc, and not ${ROOT}/etc...
>
> Though, I cannot right now think of how to actually change it so that
> it will create the appropriate accounts in a modified ${ROOT}. AFAIK
> useradd does not support this. It may require re-implementing useradd
> in portage? Which will just be silly.
>
> Perhaps ${ROOT} is not designed to be used the way you intend to use
> it? It looks like you are building embedded or cross-compiled, right?
> Maybe a work-around is to do everything in a CHROOT?
>
> Anyway, ask gentoo-embedded to see if there's any work arounds, and
> maybe ask gentoo-dev to clarify on what $ROOT is used for?
>
> Cheers,
>
> W
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