Hi, I'm trying something out over here and I'm surprised to find that acct-group/* do not work with ROOT+SYSROOT != "/".
Should I file yet another bug about this? I suppose the limitation is in user.eclass, but what about the 11 bugs already filed about exactly this problem? They are easy to see in the dup bug list at https://bugs.gentoo.org/53269 Unfortunately mgorny closed 53269 WONTFIX because GLEP-27 is Deferred, causing all dup and dep bugs to be forgotten. Sad panda. --8<-- reproduce # export r=$(mktemp -d) # ROOT=$r SYSROOT=$r strace -fe execve emerge baselayout acct-group/ftp 2>&1 | grep groupadd [pid 13269] execve("/usr/sbin/groupadd", ["groupadd", "-r", "-g", "21", "ftp"], 0x5d7e299e2340 /* 227 vars */) = 0 groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later. * groupadd -r ${opts} "${egroup}" || die * groupadd -r ${opts} "${egroup}" || die -->8-- In my particular case -R $r would work just fine, but as can be seen in several of those 11 dup bugs it is not a general solution. Any ideas on how to solve this? Thanks //Peter
