116193 – enewuser does not handle $ROOT correctly

Bug 116193 - enewuser does not handle $ROOT correctly

Summary: enewuser does not handle $ROOT correctly

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42320

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Other

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-12-20 11:03 UTC by Stephen Dennis
Modified:	2005-12-20 11:08 UTC (History)
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Description Stephen Dennis 2005-12-20 11:03:50 UTC

When doing a $ROOT=/whatever emerge thing, if ebuild uses
enewuser, enewuser does useradd on /etc/passwd, not on
$ROOT/etc/passwd. 

Further problematic as enewuser uses getent in its logic
which is almost certainly wrong.

eclass file
/usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-20 11:08:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42320 ***