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

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Yi Zhao <yi.zhao at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> 在 2017年11月10日 13:54, Andre McCurdy 写道:
>>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> For sysvinit, we follow the Debian rule which doesn't have wheel group in
>>> the system. Should we have to break this rule for systemd? Is this necessary
>>> to use this group in systemd?
>>
>> The default systemd-tmpfiles config file expects to be able to create
>> files etc belonging to the wheel system group. Unless we patch or
>> over-ride the default systemd-tmpfiles config file to change that then
>> yes, the wheel group appears to be necessary for systemd.
>
> Ping.
>
> This is needed for rocko (assuming systemd with musl is expected to
> work with rocko?) so unless there are still strong objections I
> recommend merging as-is.
>
> More significant re-work (e.g. preventing systemd-tmpfiles from being
> enabled without systemd-sysusers or patching systemd to remove any
> dependency on the wheel group) would not be suitable for rocko, so
> should be considered separately.

Ping again.