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Bug 219225

Summary: With ROOT other than "/", users aren't created
Product: Portage Development Reporter: marcc <marcelocoelho>
Component: CoreAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description marcc 2008-04-24 23:33:07 UTC
With ROOT set to a place other than "/", users, groups and cracklib file aren't created inside $ROOT after a emerge system -ave.

This happens with normal and binary packages installations to $ROOT.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ROOT=/TEST emerge avahi cracklib
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
No users/groups exist, nor the cracklib file

Expected Results:  
All binary files of the package and the emerge time created users and groups should be inside $ROOT.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2008-04-25 00:14:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 53269 ***