[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] useradd.bbclass: fix how RDEPENDS is setup

Scott Garman scott.a.garman at intel.com
Sun Nov 6 23:07:45 UTC 2011


On 11/06/2011 12:25 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 11:31 -0800, Scott Garman wrote:
>> Fix bug where only packages named PN included base-passwd in
>> RDEPENDS. Also remove shadow requirement, since some targets
>> do not use shadow and file ownership can be changed with only
>> passwd/group entries.
>>
>> This fixes [YOCTO #1727]
>
> Don't you need shadow or some equivalent to provide /sbin/useradd so
> that the postinsts work for on-target installs?  Removing shadow from
> RDEPENDS does sound like a good plan for the no-package-management case,
> but I'm not sure it's safe otherwise.

Of course you're right. Thank you for pointing this out. I will spin a 
v2 of the patchset.

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center




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