[OE-core] issue with file-ownership in images

[Andreas Müller]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
OK I did a test with current git master.

Good news:

the sequence of running preinst-script and unpacking is correct now:

| NOTE: Performing useradd with [--root
/home/a.mueller/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/work/overo-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/xfce4-tiny-image/1.0-r0/rootfs
--system --no-create-home --user-group --home-dir /etc/polkit-1
polkitd] and 10 times of retry
...
...
| Installing polkit (0.112-r0) on root.
| Downloading file:/home/a.mueller/tmp/oe-core-eglibc/deploy/ipk/armv7at2hf-vfp-neon/polkit_0.112-r0_armv7at2hf-vfp-neon.ipk.
...

Bad news:

gid/uid are still identical to those with opkg 2.01 (based on same ipks created)

I think what happens is that opkg simply uses the ids which were found
during installation.

So now with the sequence looking solved, I understand better what you suggested:
> It would certainly be possible to add options to the
> next version of opkg to lookup uids & gids from a given passwd & group
> file (which could be those from the sysroot). Is that something that
> would be useful in the future?
Yes this would solve this issue (nit: replace 'sysroot' by rootfs or image).

enjoy Easter

Andreas