[yocto] extrausers working from image file .bb but not from .bbappend

[Chris Morgan]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
>> On Apr 21, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Based on http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-classes-extrausers
>> and the .bbclass file I've added this to a .bbappend,
>> pulseaudio_%.bbappend actually so root user can use pactl when
>> pulseaudio is running in system mode:
>>
>> inherit extrausers
>> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\
>>        usermod -a -G audio root \
>> "
>>
>>
>> From the .bbappend this isn't working. If instead I add it to our
>> custom image file recipe (image-blah.bb) it does work.
>
> its a image level config so thats right behavior.
>
>>
>> I'm not sure how to debug or why it isn't working from the .bbappend. Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, the documentation in the .bbclass seems out of date but wanted to confirm:
>>
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/plain/meta/classes/extrausers.bbclass
>>
>> shows:
>>
>> Below is an example showing how to use this functionality.
>> # INHERIT += "extrausers"
>> # EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\
>> # useradd -p '' tester; \
>> # groupadd developers; \
>> # userdel nobody; \
>> # groupdel -g video; \
>> # groupmod -g 1020 developers; \
>> # usermod -s /bin/sh tester; \
>> # "
>>
>> This INHERIT vs. inherit seems like it could be something that changed
>> in bitbake in the past but was left over in the .bbclass.
>
> its correct because its assuming you are adding it to config metadata and not recipe metadata
> may be location is not right. Send a patch
>

Hmm. Not sure I see anything incorrect at this point, given that I was
using it incorrectly...