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Bug 34234 - net-misc/ntp requires sys-apps/shadow
Summary: net-misc/ntp requires sys-apps/shadow
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-11-23 20:08 UTC by Ryan Finnie
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description Ryan Finnie 2003-11-23 20:08:20 UTC 
net-misc/ntp requires sys-apps/shadow (specifically the useradd/groupadd
programs), but this is not specified in the ebuild.  Now, I know shadow is
available after an "emerge system", but the way I found out about it is I'm
building a custom make.profile that includes ntp, and it happened to be built
before shadow.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. extract stage 2 tarball
2. do NOT do an "emerge system"
3. "emerge ntp"

Actual Results:  
ntp complains about not being able to find groupadd (sorry, don't have the exact
paste)

Expected Results:  
ntp installs successfully
Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-23 20:17:13 UTC 
Sorry, but we can't support custom profiles, as that would mean we have to add glibc, gcc and all the other system stuff as dependencies too to a lot of ebuilds.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-11-23 21:01:27 UTC 
a lot more than ntp will break ... anything that adds custom users/groups uses 'useradd' and 'groupadd'