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From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
To: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rootfs-postcommands.bbclass: sort passwd entries
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 15:04:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1483884249.4383.31.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1483868215.4360.185.camel@pbcl.net>

On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 09:36 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> I'm not sure it's that complicated.  Maybe I'm overlooking something
> obvious, but something like "sort -t: -k3n" seems like it ought to
> suffice for sorting /etc/passwd and /etc/group on numeric id.
> 
> I didn't understand Patrick's comment about "id not present in each
> file" though, maybe that's the key to the extra complexity.

/etc/gshadow doesn't contain numeric IDs, so sorting has to be done
based on information gathered from /etc/groups. Not terribly difficult,
just more code.

I also wonder how to handle comment lines - remove them (easy) or
associate with the following entry (nicer)?

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-08 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-05 15:38 [PATCH 1/1] rootfs-postcommands.bbclass: sort passwd entries Patrick Ohly
2017-01-06 21:17 ` Phil Blundell
2017-01-07  8:06   ` Patrick Ohly
2017-01-07  9:59     ` Phil Blundell
2017-01-07 19:00       ` Patrick Ohly
2017-01-07 22:52         ` Richard Purdie
2017-01-08  9:36           ` Phil Blundell
2017-01-08 14:04             ` Patrick Ohly [this message]
2017-01-09 10:09 ` [PATCH V2 " Patrick Ohly

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