[OE-core] Handling of users in multiple recipes.

[Mark Hatle]

On 4/14/17 11:49 AM, Davis, Michael wrote:
> I have a user that is added in a recipe using inherit useradd.
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> Previously in Morty I was able to include that recipe as a dependency to other
> recipes and chown files to that user during do_install.
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> In checking at master in prep for 2.3 I noticed those recipes no longer work
> stating the user is invalid.
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A patch for this issue was added yesterday to oe-core.  I'm not sure if it has
been merged to master, but should be soon if it has not already been.

Search the list archives for "base-passwd/useradd: Various improvements to
useradd with RSS".

--Mark

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> Is there a new mechanism in place to handle this use case or am I going to have
> to find some sort of other work around?
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> Thanks,
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> Mike
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