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Bug 491868

Summary: emerge --root=... enewuser in pkg_setup() fails to create user in target root directory
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Radoslaw Kojdecki <radek>
Component: UnclassifiedAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Radoslaw Kojdecki 2013-11-21 12:56:03 UTC
Emerge with "--root" doesn't create users in target directory that exists in builder's system

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Be sure that /etc/passwd doesn't have "quagga" user
2.Create /target-system directory
3.Perform "emerge --root=/target-system quagga"
4.Look at /target-system/etc/passwd
Actual Results:  
There is no "quagga" line in /target-system/etc/passwd

Expected Results:  
Adding "quagga" user (in that case) into /target-system/etc/passwd
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-11-22 13:33:50 UTC
Assuming you tried =net-misc/quagga-0.99.22.4, this work would be done in the enewuser and enewgroup calls in pkg_setup().
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2013-12-10 23:52:56 UTC

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