On 11/16/14, 6:59 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 18:05 -0600, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
On 11/15/2014 10:21 AM, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
tl;dr: multilib apparently defines its own root directory underneath
${IMAGE_ROOT} which includes copies of /etc files like passwd that are
not known to pseudo. opkg and rpm differ in whether useradd scripts
are run when a multilib package is installed, resulting in failures to
add users/groups during multilib install when using opkg because a
sanity check thinks they already exist because pseudo is looking
somewhere else.
Actually, I'm going to retract this whole thing, since I'm now unable to
reproduce any of the problems described here. Possibly because of
changes to the pseudo patches that fixed problems I thought were
unrelated to this behavior.
Sorry for the noise.
FWIW you are right in that the way multilib works with rpm is different
to ipk/deb, you can end up with two different rootfs directories which
are then reconciled. I do have some concerns about what would happen to
the passwd/group files in this scenario since they could easily become
out of sync. I suspect we'd have to create a pathological configuration
to manage that but its probably possible. I *think* the system would at
least error out if that pathological case occured.
That said, I suspect this problem exists before your patchset so isn't a
new issue.
Personally I recommend using RPM if you need multilib support. For single lib
support, I don't have a single recommendation.
--Mark
Cheers,
Richard
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