From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base-passwd: Fix the broken preinst/postinstall
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:52:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321275166.29435.21.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321274982.26881.55.camel@ted>
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 12:49 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> The preinst accesses file which may not yet have been unpacked.
> The postinst is too late for the creation of these files
> for at least the opkg backend.
>
> This patch therefore encodes the file contents into the preinst,
> resolving the various issues once and for all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
If you're going to do that (which does look reasonable) then you might
as well stop the package from shipping passwd.master and group.master at
all. I don't think anything else uses those files so they're just
wasting space at the moment.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-14 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-14 12:49 [PATCH] base-passwd: Fix the broken preinst/postinstall Richard Purdie
2011-11-14 12:52 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2011-11-14 13:03 ` Otavio Salvador
2011-11-14 13:37 ` Koen Kooi
2011-11-14 13:57 ` [PATCH] base-passwd: Move update-passwd into a separate package Richard Purdie
2011-11-14 15:15 ` Phil Blundell
2011-11-14 17:19 ` Richard Purdie
2011-11-14 17:38 ` Phil Blundell
2011-11-14 13:58 ` [PATCH] base-passwd: Fix the broken preinst/postinstall Richard Purdie
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