Re: do_rootfs : (offline root mode: not running openntpd.postinst)

[Christophe Aeschlimann <c.aeschlimann@acn-group.ch>]

Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:22 +0200, Christophe Aeschlimann wrote:
>> Of course I can modify the recipe so it will change my passwd file during 
>> install or add some initialization script to check that this user is created 
>> before ntpd runs but I'm more curious about why we skip all the postinst scripts.
> 
> The postinst scripts are primarily intended to execute on the target
> device (during "ipkg configure" or equivalent) and, in general, they
> won't run correctly on the build host.  So, when ipkg is running in
> offline root mode, it skips the postinsts and leaves the packages
> installed but not configured.
> 
> [...]
> 
> p.
> 
> 

Thank you for the quick and very detailed answer.

Regards,

Christophe