From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:36:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: makedevs only accepts numerical values In-Reply-To: <1440800701-26153-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <1440800701-26153-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <20150829103644.747302a4@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Yann E. MORIN, On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:25:01 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Because of a limitation in how makedevs resolves names [0], usernames > and groupnames would be resolved with UIDs and GIDs from the host, not > the target. > > Fixing makedevs would involve us rewriting a /etc/passwd and /etc/group > parser (not too complex, still not trivial). > > Document that the user and group fields should only be numbers, not > names. Also, the manual is currently mislieading, as an example indeed mislieading -> misleading typo fixed. And patch applied to master, thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com