[OE-core] [PATCH v2] base-passwd: Add kvm group

Jacob Kroon jacob.kroon at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 03:11:53 UTC 2019


Although base-passwd in OE is somewhat outdated, upgrading
to a newer version is not going to solve eudev warnings about
missing groups during boot; input/shutdown/kvm are still not
listed in groups.master. The reason for this is that
Debian uses systemd, which will automatically create
missing groups(systemd-sysusers). In a sysvinit+eudev
configuration you instead get a warning printed to
the console:

  udevd[<pid>]: specified group 'kvm' unknown

Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon at gmail.com>
---

v2: Add reasoning in commit message trying to justify the added patch

 .../base-passwd/base-passwd/kvm.patch         | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb         |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd/kvm.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd/kvm.patch b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd/kvm.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..113d5151e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd/kvm.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From 6355278b9f744291864c373a32a8da8f84aaaf37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon at gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:53:48 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Add kvm group
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon at gmail.com>
+---
+ group.master | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/group.master b/group.master
+index cea9d60..5b62284 100644
+--- a/group.master
++++ b/group.master
+@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ utmp:*:43:
+ video:*:44:
+ sasl:*:45:
+ plugdev:*:46:
++kvm:*:47:
+ staff:*:50:
+ games:*:60:
+ shutdown:*:70:
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
index c6be1c1d08..d1aab09181 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ SRC_URI = "https://launchpad.net/debian/+archive/primary/+files/${BPN}_${PV}.tar
            file://noshadow.patch \
            file://input.patch \
            file://disable-docs.patch \
-          "
+           file://kvm.patch \
+           "
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6beccac48083fe8ae5048acd062e5421"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f0b66388b2c8e49c15692439d2bee63bcdd4bbbf7a782c7f64accc55986b6a36"
-- 
2.20.1



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