[OE-core] [PATCH] shadow: Create recipe nativesdk-shadow

[David Nyström]

On 09/25/2013 12:03 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 16:30 +0200, David Nyström wrote:
>> I'm have a question about this though.
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
>> b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
>> index 4df5e5e..75b0afc 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
>> <snip>
>> +pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
>> +	if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
>> +	  rootarg="--root=$D"
>> +	else
>> +	  rootarg=""
>> +	fi
>> +
>> +	pwconv $rootarg
>> +	grpconv $rootarg
>> +}
>> <snip>
>>
>> This will introduce the postinstall hook for both ${BPN}-native and
>> ${BPN} ?. Before the change, the postinstall hook was activated only by
>> ${BPN} afaict. Tried removing it from native* through
>> pkg_postinst_${BPN}, but that does not seem to work.
>
> Basically the postinst is ignored for the -native version. It never gets
> packaged so isn't relevant. Adding in special cases for native for each
> and every recipe would get ugly very quickly.
>

Sorry, bad wording on my end. I was worried about nativesdk 
post/prefuncs beeing added.

<snip>

>> Also, seems like ${sysconfdir} in the nativesdk-opkg postinstall expands to:
>>
>> chmod 0755 $D${sysconfdir}/rcS.d/S${POSTINSTALL_INITPOSITION}run-postinsts
>> chmod 0755
>> $D/opt/poky/1.4+snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/etc/rcS.d/S98run-postinsts
>>
>> Is this really expected behaviour ?
>
> nativesdk postinstalls are probably badly handled at the moment.

I Agree, it would be good with a consistent handling between nativesdk 
and target pre/postinstall hooks.
I'll try to dive into this subject when I have more time.

> I suspect if things can run at rootfs creation time they work out, if they
> can't run then, they never happen at all. We don't have a "first boot"
> of the sdk...
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>