Spamming the build host's syslog with useradd information during image creation
isn't great. Add a patch to disable that.

It may be possible to convince upstream to make it a configure option but for
now the patch is trivial and reduces host impact to the logs.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
---
 .../shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch         | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb |  1 +
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch 
b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7299a8e61cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+When building images using shadow-native, we shouldn't be spamming the host's
+log with lots of syslog messages which aren't relavent. Disable syslog use
+in the native case.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [Would upstream accept a configure option?]
+Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
+
+Index: shadow-4.17.2/lib/defines.h
+===================================================================
+--- shadow-4.17.2.orig/lib/defines.h
++++ shadow-4.17.2/lib/defines.h
+@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@
+ 
+ /* cleaner than lots of #ifdefs everywhere - use this as follows:
+    SYSLOG((LOG_CRIT, "user %s cracked root", user)); */
+-#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
++#if 1
++#define SYSLOG(x)
++#elif ENABLE_NLS
+ /* Temporarily set LC_TIME to "C" to avoid strange dates in syslog.
+    This is a workaround for a more general syslog(d) design problem -
+    syslogd should log the current system time for each event, and not
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb 
b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb
index 5459d4e57ff..19512f25941 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ SRC_URI:append:class-target = " \
 
 SRC_URI:append:class-native = " \
            file://commonio.c-fix-unexpected-open-failure-in-chroot-env.patch \
+           file://disable_syslog.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
"064a7c048e613ef5b5f3613e137d79d35d062ab434e89020f743e90844ec5c4f"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/v?(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)$"
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