On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 17:29 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > There is a comparatively neat way we could use pkgdata to track the > provider of a given user, specifically: > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/w > ip > &id=5cd646ea185eaafaa341f26310f2eddc75766175 > > The above is a quick patch I've just put together which illustrates > what could be done so that the user gets better warnings about > conflicting users. It needs cleaning up but thought it worth sharing > now as if might give some ideas. > > This is in keeping with how bitbake detects multiple providers of the > same thing.
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/wip &id=a362e6da0eec1f7a7d4db19d47f16b1c729562ba is an improved version. > > Here I must show my lack of knowledge. How and where should I go > > about > > adding a regression test that verifies the support for that > > multiple > > recipes can add the same user/group? Since this does not test a > > specific recipe, but rather a part of the build framework, I do not > > know if, e.g., ptest is applicable (of which I have no experience > > either). > > oe-selftest would be the place to add something like this, see the > /meta/lib/oeqa/selftest directory. We could add some test useradd > recipes to meta-selftest. http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/wip &id=23134a7d837bc7985ba8e7069d405913c2055a04 is a really simplistic new selftest for useradd. It does however test the bug the original patch fixes. There are clearly a much wider range of things it could test, I just wanted to show this isn't hard. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core