[OE-core] dbus build host uid/gid leaking into target home directory

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-10-11 11:16, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
> Back at http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-December/053836.html it was noted that the dbus home directory /var/lib/dbus on the target was using the
> build host uid/gid.  Various discussion agreed this shouldn't happen, but there was no resolution in the thread.
>
> I found https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1711 which is marked fixed, but on a newly installed system I find:
>
> root at beaglebone:~# ls -l /var/lib
> total 52
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11  2014 alsa
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11  2014 arpd
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 12:30 connman
> drwxr-xr-x 2  102  105 4096 Oct 11  2014 dbus
>
> where the dbus uid/gid is from my host system as shown by:
>
> root at beaglebone:~# grep dbus /etc/passwd
> messagebus:x:999:998::/var/lib/dbus:/bin/false
> llc[140]$ grep dbus /etc/passwd
> messagebus:x:102:105::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
>
> This arises in an image extending core-image-base building meta-ti's version of beaglebone.  (I'm actually trying to fix the same problem arising in a patch intended to make sure
> ntp's home directory exists, but the dbus one appears to be the same thing.)
>
> The suggested workaround for opkg of using a pkg_postinst script doesn't work in my case because the rpm post-install script gets run on the build host that's creating rootfs.The
> ownership is wrong in the generated rootfs tar files whether or not there's a post-install script that tries to change it.
>
> For my ntp patch I verified that removing the package and installing it on the target does work as expected.
>
> Does anybody else see this sort of thing?
>
> If not, where in the image packaging code is the magic that's supposed to help pseudo record who's really supposed to own the files and re-apply that when the image packaging is done?

It does not happen in my builds which are more-or-less stock
Poky (I have my own distro and BSP layers).  Must be something
going on in the meta-ti layer?

Are you using the latest OE-core (or Poky/Yocto) master?

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