[OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] base-passwd: move initial criation of group and passwd to preinst

[Mark Hatle]

I've seen other distributions solve this doing this by creating the passwd/group
files based on the contents of the recipe and not some external file.

So you would have a list of users/groups that need to be created with their
attributes.  In the do_install these items would be dumped into the
passwd/group.master file(s).  But also in the preinst, it would check for the
existence of the files -- if they didn't exist yet.. it would simply write out
the passwd/group files at that point.

By embedding the data in the recipe, it keeps things in sync and resolves the
chicken/egg problem.

Any opinions from folks if this is even halfway reasonable for us to consider?

(I'm guessing with some anon python code we could probably load in the
passwd/group files, place them into a variable and use the variable to embed
them within the preinst -- keeping the contents out of the recipe.)

--Mark

On 10/21/11 9:10 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> To allow use and manipulation of users and groups at rootfs building
> time, the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' needs to be available as soon
> as possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
> ---
>  .../recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb |   19 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb
> index 137512d..aa90a6d 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  SUMMARY = "Base system master password/group files."
>  DESCRIPTION = "The master copies of the user database files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group).  The update-passwd tool is also provided to keep the system databases synchronized with these master files."
>  SECTION = "base"
> -PR = "r3"
> +PR = "r4"
>  LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
>  
> @@ -37,6 +37,23 @@ do_install () {
>  	install -p -m 644 debian/copyright ${D}${docdir}/${BPN}/
>  }
>  
> +pkg_preinst_${PN} () {
> +	set -e
> +
> +	# Used for rootfs generation. On in-target install this will be run
> +        # before the unpack so the files won't be available
> +
> +	if [ ! -e $D${sysconfdir}/passwd ] && [ -e $D${datadir}/base-passwd/passwd.master ]; then
> +		cp $D${datadir}/base-passwd/passwd.master $D${sysconfdir}/passwd
> +	fi
> +
> +	if [ ! -e $D${sysconfdir}/group ] && [ -e $D${datadir}/base-passwd/group.master ]; then
> +		cp $D${datadir}/base-passwd/group.master $D${sysconfdir}/group
> +	fi
> +
> +	exit 0
> +}
> +
>  pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
>  	set -e
>