Bug 5436

Summary:	Add the ability to specify static uid / gid pairs to be used by packages at build time for post install scripts
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Mark Hatle <mark.hatle>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Mark Hatle <mark.hatle>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, richard.purdie
Version:	1.6
Target Milestone:	1.6
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Mark Hatle 2013-10-31 16:58:32 UTC

Currently the order of the packages install affects the resulting passwd/group files.  As the files are installed adduser/addgroup is called and for uid/gid that are not statically defined -- dynamic items are added.

Two installations may result in different non-deterministic behavior.

We would like a way to generate a system with deterministic uid/gid behavior, while still allows the passwd/group file to be dynamically generated based on the content of the image.

Comment 1 Mark Hatle 2013-10-31 16:59:05 UTC

I'm working on an implementation of this feature.

Comment 2 Mark Hatle 2014-02-27 16:18:31 UTC

Implemented in commits:

18c99dac52b746b88cd084eb4c2a2ef0329a6ff3
f35bbba65e3e41f8dea1f9ff872d3a9fbd84bf6d