Bug 302572

Summary:	support for enewuser and enewgroup during cross-compilation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Levine <plevine457>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Embedded Gentoo Team <embedded>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for eutils.eclass

Description Peter Levine 2010-01-28 06:49:21 UTC

The attached patch adds support in eutils.eclass for cross-helper utility (bug# 302570) so enewuser and enewgroup will work properly during cross-compilation on a native system.  egetent will check for the existence of cross-helper and if found use a grep statement, or else it will default to getent.  enewuser and enewgroup existence will check for the existence of cross-helper and use it.  Or it will emit an ewarn/ebeep message and proceed as usual.  I assumed I needed to file this in two bugs, thoough they are related, so please reference the bug# above.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Peter Levine 2010-01-28 06:50:55 UTC

Created attachment 217697 [details, diff]
patch for eutils.eclass

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-02-09 17:22:25 UTC

this isnt a cross-compiling specific issue.  any emerge where ROOT!=/ is a problem.  same answer as the referenced bug -- enhance shadow.