[OE-core] [PATCHv2 0/6] Improvements for useradd-staticids.bbclass

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

*ping*

//Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Peter Kjellerstedt
> Sent: den 19 december 2015 00:54
> To: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: [OE-core] [PATCHv2 0/6] Improvements for useradd-
> staticids.bbclass
> 
> It is now 1.5 months since I originally supplied these patches. The
> only comment I received was about a couple of unnecessary spaces that
> I had removed. After explaining why removing them should not make any
> change to the implementation (more than a month ago), I have not
> received any response at all even after pushing for it on the list (a
> month ago) and in private (two weeks ago).
> 
> Since I am now fed up with waithing for any response, I have taken the
> time to split out the removal of those three spaces into a separate
> patch in the vain hope that this will make the patches suitable to be
> applied...
> 
> Now I will go on vacation till the beginning of the next year, hoping
> that the patches have been applied when I get back. So until then,
> Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
> 
> Original patch set description below.
> 
> This series of patches aims to improve useradd-staticids.bbclass.
> 
> We are currently using useradd-staticids.bbclass to make sure all
> users and groups have well defined IDs. So far we have had the
> definitions of the users both in the recipes and in the passwd file
> used by useradd-staticids.bbclass. Since we have a huge number of
> recipes that create users, having to duplicate the definitions all
> over the place has turned out to be a burden we should be able to
> avoid.
> 
> So the current plan for us is to have one passwd file per layer with
> the definitions of all users that layer needs. These definitions do
> not include the static IDs for the users. Instead the static IDs for
> the users are specified in a distro specific passwd-static file. There
> is also a distro specific group-static file for the group IDs. With
> that in place it should be enough to define a user as:
> 
> USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system foobar"
> 
> in a recipe and let useradd-staticids.bbclass handle the specifics for
> how that user should be defined.
> 
> The above worked fine for all users that had a primary group with the
> same name as the user. However, it turned out that for users that
> wanted some other primary group, specifying it in the passwd file was
> not enough. We still had to add --gid <some group> in the recipe where
> <some group> had to match what was specified in the passwd file. This
> was less than optimal, and somewhat defeated the setup.
> 
> It also turned out that for users with a primary group that does not
> match the user name, useradd-staticids.bbclass would still add the
> creation of a group with the same name as the user (when it parsed the
> passwd-static file) and the add another creation of the correct group
> (when it parsed the passwd file).
> 
> So after spending quite a lot of time on trying to decode how
> rewrite_useradd() calculated the --gid option, I came up with this
> series of changes that should correct the problems described above and
> make the code easier to understand while (hopefully) maintaining
> compatibility with the old code.
> 
> //Peter
> 
> The following changes since commit
> 5f406915b5e26761faa4ea5e0edd887ac5ae6e2f:
> 
>   bitbake: toaster: remove 2 confusing parameters (2015-12-18 13:51:54
> +0000)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib pkj/useradd_improvements
>   http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-
> contrib/log/?h=pkj/useradd_improvements
> 
> Peter Kjellerstedt (6):
>   useradd-staticids.bbclass: Treat mutually exclusive options as such
>   useradd-staticids.bbclass: Make --no-user-group have effect
>   useradd-staticids.bbclass: Simplify some logic
>   useradd-staticids.bbclass: Simplify the logic for when to add groups
>   useradd-staticids.bbclass: Read passwd/group files before parsing
>   useradd-staticids.bbclass: Remove unnecessary spaces
> 
>  meta/classes/useradd-staticids.bbclass | 192 ++++++++++++++++++-------
> --------
>  1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
> 
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