[OE-core] [PATCH 2/7] shadow: add a -native recipe with customized utilities

[Martyn Welch]

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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