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From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] shadow: add a -native recipe with customized utilities
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:34:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE631D3.9070703@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306921632.2529.18.camel@phil-desktop>

On 01/06/11 10:47, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:53 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
>> This adds a -native recipe for the shadow utilities.
>>
>> The custom --root option allows the the following utilities to be
>> run within a chroot when invoked under pseudo:
> 
> Rather than patching the code for all these utilities, can't you just
> wrap them in a call to chroot(8)?  That is, make useradd.bbclass do:
> 
> eval $PSEUDO chroot ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET} useradd ...
> 
> rather than the existing
> 
> eval $PSEUDO useradd --root ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET} ...
> 
> ?
> 

You'd need root privileges to use chroot wouldn't you? I'm assuming you
wouldn't with the existing.

Martyn

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-31 19:53 [PATCH 0/7] User/group creation at preinstall Scott Garman
2011-05-31 18:45 ` [poky] " Koen Kooi
2011-05-31 19:06   ` Saul Wold
2011-05-31 19:51     ` Scott Garman
2011-05-31 19:57       ` Otavio Salvador
2011-05-31 21:16         ` Mark Hatle
2011-05-31 21:27           ` Scott Garman
2011-05-31 21:51             ` Richard Purdie
2011-05-31 21:25       ` Richard Purdie
2011-05-31 19:53 ` [PATCH 1/7] shadow: recipe and patch cleanup Scott Garman
2011-05-31 19:53 ` [PATCH 2/7] shadow: add a -native recipe with customized utilities Scott Garman
2011-06-01  9:47   ` Phil Blundell
2011-06-01 12:34     ` Martyn Welch [this message]
2011-06-01 13:42       ` Phil Blundell
2011-06-01 17:43     ` Scott Garman
2011-06-01 21:05       ` Mark Hatle
2011-06-02 11:19         ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-01 14:46   ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-01 16:41   ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-01 16:54     ` Mark Hatle
2011-09-01 16:58       ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-01 17:25         ` Mark Hatle
2011-09-01 19:44           ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-01 21:59             ` Richard Purdie
2011-09-02  0:02               ` Mark Hatle
2011-09-02  7:15               ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-02  9:50               ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-02 14:03                 ` Richard Purdie
2011-09-02 18:43                   ` Phil Blundell
2011-09-02 19:17                     ` Mark Hatle
2011-05-31 19:53 ` [PATCH 3/7] base-passwd: add -cross recipe with default login.defs Scott Garman
2011-05-31 19:53 ` [PATCH 4/7] useradd.bbclass: new class for managing user/group permissions Scott Garman
2011-05-31 19:53 ` [PATCH 5/7] useradd-example: example recipe for using inherit useradd Scott Garman
2011-05-31 19:53 ` [PATCH 6/7] bitbake.conf: set PSEUDO_PASSWD within FAKEROOTENV Scott Garman
2011-05-31 19:53 ` [PATCH 7/7] package_rpm.bbclass: make RPM use on-disk permissions Scott Garman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-02 23:50 [PATCH 0/7] User/group creation at preinstall v2 Scott Garman
2011-06-02 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/7] shadow: add a -native recipe with customized utilities Scott Garman

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