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

[Mark Hatle]

On 9/1/11 4:59 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 20:44 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 12:25 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>> On 9/1/11 11:58 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>>> And, I guess, if you want to support online package management then it
>>>> does make some sense to have the shadow utils there.  But I don't
>>>> need/want that in my configuration.
>>>
>>> Does busybox or something else provide a compatible adduser?  If so maybe a
>>> virtual RDEPENDS is more reasonable in this case.
>>
>> I'm not sure offhand (it's actually useradd, not adduser, for what
>> that's worth) but, even if busybox does provide those applets, that
>> probably isn't quite the point.  The issue here is that I don't really
>> want to have any implementation of useradd at all on the target system;
>> using one from busybox would be a bit less bad than requiring standalone
>> shadow, but still not really ideal.
>>
>> One workaround would be to weaken the RDEPENDS to an RRECOMMENDS, which
>> would allow me to declare it as a BAD_RECOMMENDATION.  Or I guess we
>> could make it be a virtual and I could then provide a dummy-useradd
>> package which satisfies the dependency but doesn't actually install any
>> files.  
>>
>> The approach we take with update-rc.d is to let it be installed and then
>> have rootfs_ipk rip it back out again after image construction is done,
>> but this won't work with shadow as it stands due to the postinst issue
>> in that package.  So a third option would be to find a way to finesse
>> the postinst thing somehow and then use the same rootfs_ipk logic with
>> shadow too.
> 
> The latter sounds like what we'll need to do. I haven't looked at shadow
> to see what kind of finessing is required though...
> 
> Does opkg have any notion of bitbake's ASSUME_PROVIDED?

RPM has a mechanism to provide a list of "provided" items.  But there is not
currently any logic to seed that data.  If there is a standard list, it's
something we can add easily enough.

--Mark

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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