Re: [PATCH 1/1] useradd: do not delete users and groups during configure

[Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod@windriver.com>]

On 2016-08-16 02:16 PM, Joe Slater wrote:
> If two recipes both create the same users and groups, the
> second recipe can delete items created by the first causing
> things like "chown" to fail for the first recipe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Slater <jslater@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/useradd.bbclass |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass b/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass
> index 8d51fb5..6df9822 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ useradd_sysroot_sstate () {
>
>  userdel_sysroot_sstate () {
>  if test "x${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}" != "x"; then
> -    if [ "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "configure" -o "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "clean" ]; then
> +    if [ "${BB_CURRENTTASK}" = "clean" ]; then
>          export PSEUDO="${FAKEROOTENV} PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${localstatedir}/pseudo ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${bindir_native}/pseudo"
>          OPT="--root ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}"
>
>


I don't see this in oe-core/master[-next] yet.

Is there a better solution or should the recipes
that create the user (ftp in this case), be modified some how?

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