Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] oe-selftest: Add static postgres user/group for reproducible build test

["Yoann Congal" <yoann.congal@smile.fr>]

On Tue Apr 21, 2026 at 9:06 AM CEST, ZhangXiao via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> This adds the static postgres UID/GID entries to static-passwd and
> static-group, fixing the "Nothing PROVIDES 'postgresql'" error when
> running reproducible test.
>
> The selftest environment requires static system user IDs to ensure
> build reproducibility, which was missing for the postgres user/group
> before this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiao <xiao.zhang@windriver.com>

Since this is a meta-oe recipe, shouldn't those static IDs be defined in
https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/files/static-passwd-meta-oe
https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/files/static-group-meta-oe
instead?

Regards,

> ---
>  meta-selftest/files/static-group  | 1 +
>  meta-selftest/files/static-passwd | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta-selftest/files/static-group b/meta-selftest/files/static-group
> index 6a9ece20a8..a08795c4ea 100644
> --- a/meta-selftest/files/static-group
> +++ b/meta-selftest/files/static-group
> @@ -31,4 +31,5 @@ audio:x:532:
>  empower:x:533:
>  cmake-example:x:534:
>  meson-example:x:535:
> +postgres:x:536
>  nogroup:x:65534:
> diff --git a/meta-selftest/files/static-passwd b/meta-selftest/files/static-passwd
> index 98017c8153..ba1dcd54d8 100644
> --- a/meta-selftest/files/static-passwd
> +++ b/meta-selftest/files/static-passwd
> @@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ ptest:x:529:529::/:/bin/nologin
>  xuser:x:530:530::/:/bin/nologin
>  cmake-example:x:534:534::/var/lib/cmake-example:/bin/false
>  meson-example:x:535:535::/var/lib/meson-example:/bin/false
> +postgres:x:536:536::/:/bin/nologin


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Yoann Congal
Smile ECS