Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] apt: Set gid to nogroup

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Wed Jan 28, 2026 at 3:25 AM CET, Jaeyoon Jung (LGE) via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Jaeyoon Jung <jaeyoon.jung@lge.com>
>
> With no --no-user-group, it tries to assign "_apt" gid which ends up
> with an error when using static gid values and "_apt" is not defined in
> USERADD_GID_TABLES. Conventionally "_apt" does not have its own gid but
> rather uses "nogroup".
>
> | apt was skipped: Recipe apt, package apt: normal groupname "_apt" does not have a static ID defined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaeyoon Jung <jaeyoon.jung@lge.com>
> ---

Hi Jaeyoon,

Thanks for your patch.

It looks like this is generating build errors in some condition. So far
it only shows during the reproducibility test:

2026-01-28 16:57:19,382 - oe-selftest - INFO -       ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'apt' (but /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-full-cmdline.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-graphics/images/core-image-weston.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
2026-01-28 16:57:19,382 - oe-selftest - INFO -       apt was skipped: Recipe apt, package apt: normal groupname "nogroup" does not have a static ID defined. Add nogroup to one of these files: /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/meta-selftest/files/static-group

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/3270

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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