On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:22 PM Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > 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 $r would work just fine, but as can be seen > in several of those 11 dup bugs it is not a general solution. > > Any ideas on how to solve this?
I know it's not a general fix, but my solution for building a separate systemd root was to use sysusers. You could try the eclass patch(es) at https://bugs.gentoo.org/702624 if you're using at least systemd 245. (Older versions work if you apply the upstream commit linked in the bug.) If you're running a systemd host with a non-systemd target, you can still probably run "systemd-sysusers --root=$ROOT" after emerge to generate the accounts that way. Thanks. David
