Bug 5436 - Add the ability to specify static uid / gid pairs to be used by packages at build time for post install scripts
Summary: Add the ability to specify static uid / gid pairs to be used by packages at b...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 1.6
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium enhancement
Target Milestone: 1.6
Assignee: Mark Hatle
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Reported: 2013-10-31 16:58 UTC by Mark Hatle
Modified: 2014-02-27 16:18 UTC (History)
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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