On 9/24/21 9:02 AM, Zoltan Boszormenyi via lists.openembedded.org wrote:

Hi,

I have a special package that creates users and groups
via inherit useradd. This package doesn't depend on any
others but it is depended on, both via DEPENDS and RDEPENDS
by packages using those users/groups in their do_install
scripts.

This works for packaging becase these ownerships
are encoded in the packages, confirmed by rpm -qp --dump ...

Does it show the useradd in the _PREINSTALL_ (you can use --scriptlets in the
rpm -qp)?

However, during do_rootfs, a couple of
"user/group XXX does not exist, using root"
messages appear for the packages depending on others
creating these users/groups.

Do the using packages contain RDEPENDS on the package that adds the user/group
to the system?

log.do_rootfs shows that the package installation ordering
does not follow RDEPENDS. Instead, it's practically an
alphabetical order when running dnf.

This doesn't just involve my custom packages, but also clamav
plus another one in which I ship a small limited set of
virus signatures, also chown'd to clamav and with RDEPENDS
on clamav.

What is the correct solution to this?

Typically the combination of the pre-install scriptlet, along with RDEPENDS will
ensure that the user has been added before the install completes.

--Mark

Thanks in advance,
Zoltán Böszörményi



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