ok, thank you.I will try the chroot stuff as soon as I have some time. As for what I'm trying to do: making portage able to add user/groups when using --root option. This is a known limitation since a long time. I'm currently also discussing this point with the "shadow" upstream team (I have some patches for useradd and groupadd)
So for now I'm trying to make portage to just echo some traces when calling enewgroup for example, when I emerge sys-power/nut as a test package (that package is creating a nut user and group) I tried to put some einfo at the begining of the enewgroup function, but I do not see them. I also tryed echo "test" > /tmp/test.txt, and I do no see the file too... And I see the traces from the nut ebuild (package_setup if I remember properly). And if I remove the nut group from my /etc/group, I do see the enewgroup original traces, but not mine. It's as if portage is using a different enewgroup function, or a cached one... I tried the irc last time, but nobody was there (most likely because of the time. I will try tomorrow late afternoon) -------------------------------------------- En date de : Mer 4.5.16, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> a écrit : Objet: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re : Cannot see my eclass modifications À: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mercredi 4 mai 2016, 20h28 On 04/05/16 02:30 PM, Farid BENAMROUCHE wrote: > hum... yes I've setup all the relevant settings in my /etc/portage... > I've also read the man, and still not understanding why. > > But At least you are confirming me that directly modifying the user.eclass in /usr/portage/eclass should work! > > The exact command line I've used was ROOT=/sysroot emerge -av sys-power/nut, where sysroot is a working x86 rootfs (ie, I can chroot in it) with no portage inside... > > PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE="1" in the make.conf seems to not work too... ..ok so if you've got a full chroot, you might want to use 'emerge --config-root=/path/to/chroot [stuff]' and make sure that the /etc/portage/repos.conf changes you made are in the chroot too. Barring that, though, the issue may very well be the type of changes you're trying to make to user.eclass just not working (or being called) as expected. A bunch of us hang out on irc.freenode.org in #gentoo-dev-help , and stuff like this may be easier to help with in a more interactive environment like that.
