On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 2017-11-26 10:02, Benda Xu wrote: >> Hi Patrick, >> >> Patrick McLean <chutz...@gentoo.org> writes: >> >> > I use portage as non-root all the time when developing and testing >> > ebuilds, via the "ebuild" command. >> >> The enewgroup and enewuser are used in pkg_* functions, as documented in >> user.eclass _assert_pkg_ebuild_phase() function. They require root to >> execute. >> >> So no worries, your workflow will not be affected. > > Actually, it will probably be better. > > You should now be able to do compilation and tests without having the > user/group created. For example, dev-db/postgresql doesn’t need the > postgres system user and group in order to successfully run through > src_test and src_install. It just needs the user/group at run time.
Sounds like the enewuser call should be moved from pkg_setup to pkg_postinst in that case.
