On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com> wrote: > On 6/17/11 1:10 PM, Scott Garman wrote: >> On 06/17/2011 10:22 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 17:19, Scott Garman<scott.a.gar...@intel.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Sorry, I forgot to mention that shadow-utils-native is what is used to >>>> modify the passwd/group files in the target sysroot. It seems that having a >>>> -native recipe install files into a target sysroot would be worse than >>>> including an optional file with base-passwd that may or may not be used in >>>> target systems. >>> >>> Why not make an shadow-target package with this? >> >> To just install a login.defs file? I'm open to it if a few more people >> think this is a better idea. > > The file is needed in order for the utilities that add, remove and modify > users/groups to function properly. The full version from shadow utils is used > so we are sure we can dead with both shadow-less and shadowed filesystem > images. > (It's also more full featured then busybox, yet busybox is still compatible > with it.) > Will shadow be able to override this file ? one thing I see is that it wont get any updates that shadow might do to this file in future.
> As for the separate package, that should be fine.. but remember this is a very > small file, so is it worth "another" package? (If so, then base-files likely > should depend on it for build-time, but not run-time.) > > --Mark > >> Scott >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core