[OE-core] [PATCH] systemd: create wheel sysuser group offline

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 12:18 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com
>>> > wrote:
>>> > On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 21:54 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>> > > The default systemd-tmpfiles config file expects to be able to
>>> > > create
>>> > > files etc belonging to the wheel system group. Currently the
>>> > > wheel
>>> > > group is created at run time by systemd-sysusers, but that
>>> > > doesn't
>>> > > happen if systemd-sysusers is disabled (as it currently is by
>>> > > default
>>> > > when building with musl libc).
>>> >
>>> > Isn't this something that the systemd_create_users rootfs
>>> > postprocess
>>> > command in rootfs-postcommands.bbclass already takes care of?
>>>
>>> systemd_create_users() does a build time pass over the
>>> systemd-sysusers config files, but those files are not installed if
>>> systemd is configured without sysusers support.
>>
>> I didn't know that this is optional. To me it sounds like an invalid
>> (or let's say, unexpected) configuration to install tmpfiles config
>> files but not the sysusers files, because as you said, the tmpfiles may
>> depend on the sysusers.
>
> In the current recipe, there's no control of tmpfiles (so it will
> always be enabled) and sysusers is controlled by PACKAGECONFIG
> (enabled by default - but only when building with glibc), so the
> recipe does allow that combination.
>
>> Anyway, I just wanted to know because I was wondering whether it is
>> really necessary to duplicate the user creation information in the
>> systemd recipe.
>>

Ping.

Ross, it looks like you've started to stage the later systemd + musl
cleanups in mut. This fix is needed too.