[oe] do_rootfs : (offline root mode: not running openntpd.postinst)
Christophe Aeschlimann
c.aeschlimann at acn-group.ch
Wed Apr 29 13:35:46 UTC 2009
Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:22 +0200, Christophe Aeschlimann wrote:
>> Of course I can modify the recipe so it will change my passwd file during
>> install or add some initialization script to check that this user is created
>> before ntpd runs but I'm more curious about why we skip all the postinst scripts.
>
> The postinst scripts are primarily intended to execute on the target
> device (during "ipkg configure" or equivalent) and, in general, they
> won't run correctly on the build host. So, when ipkg is running in
> offline root mode, it skips the postinsts and leaves the packages
> installed but not configured.
>
> [...]
>
> p.
>
>
Thank you for the quick and very detailed answer.
Regards,
Christophe
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