[OE-core] [PATCH] avahi: fix useradd race condition

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 14:04 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 3 nov. 2011, om 13:57 heeft Koen Kooi het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > Avahi doesn't work at boot because of:
> > 
> > + sh /OE/../rootfs/var/lib/opkg/info/avahi-daemon.preinst
> > Running useradd commands...
> > grep: /OE/../rootfs/etc/passwd: No such file or directory
> > 
> > That is due to:
> > 
> > Package: avahi-daemon
> > Version: 0.6.30-r9.0
> > [..]
> > Depends: libavahi-core7 (>= 0.6.30), libdaemon0 (>= 0.14), libcap2 (>= 2.22), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.30), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.4.12), sysvinit-pidof, libc6 (>= 2.12), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1)
> > 
> > After this patch:
> > 
> > Package: avahi-daemon
> > Version: 0.6.30-r10.0
> > [..]
> > Depends: libavahi-core7 (>= 0.6.30), libdaemon0 (>= 0.14), libcap2 (>= 2.22), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.30), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.4.12), sysvinit-pidof, libc6 (>= 2.12), shadow, libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), base-passwd
> > 
> > This also changes ${PN}-daemon to avahi-daemon to be consistent with the PACKAGES/FILES lines below
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
> > ---
> > meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc |    7 ++++---
> > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc
> > index 79cfd73..728c38f 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi.inc
> > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SECTION = "network"
> > # python scripts are under GPLv2+
> > LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
> > 
> > -INC_PR = "r9"
> > +INC_PR = "r10"
> > 
> > DEPENDS = "expat libcap libdaemon dbus glib-2.0"
> > 
> > @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ SRC_URI = "http://avahi.org/download/avahi-${PV}.tar.gz \
> >           file://99avahi-autoipd \
> >           file://initscript.patch"
> > 
> > -USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}-daemon"
> > -USERADD_PARAM_${PN}-daemon = "--system --home /var/run/avahi-daemon \
> > +USERADDPN = "avahi-daemon"
> 
> My gut feeling is that useradd.bbclass should add the RDEPENDS in its
> pythoncode instead of relying on people to set both USERADD_PACKAGES
> and USERADDPN to the same value.

Agreed, looking at the code I think we can make this easier on the user.
I'll take the fix to solve the short term issues but we could do with
improving this.

Cheers,

Richard