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Op 21 okt. 2011, om 08:54 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 03:31 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> +USERADD_PACKAGES =3D "${PN}"
>> +GROUPADD_PARAM_${PN} =3D "-r netdev"
>> +USERADD_PARAM_${PN} =3D "--system --home ${localstatedir}/lib/dbus \
>> +                       --no-create-home --user-group messagebus"
>=20
> Why does dbus need "netdev"?


A little digging on the internet shows that some applications using dbus =
use netdev and as a result dbus will complain about a missing netdev =
group. Dbus itself doesn't seem to need it. A handfull of searchresults =
imply that not dbus but e.g. networkmanager and wpa-supplicant should =
create the group, but:

root@beagleboard:/etc/dbus-1/system.d# ls
ConsoleKit.conf           org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf
NetworkManager.conf       org.freedesktop.UDisks.conf
avahi-dbus.conf           org.freedesktop.UPower.conf
bluetooth.conf            org.freedesktop.hostname1.conf
dbus-wpa_supplicant.conf  org.freedesktop.locale1.conf
gdm.conf                  org.freedesktop.login1.conf
nm-avahi-autoipd.conf     org.freedesktop.systemd1.conf
nm-dhcp-client.conf       org.freedesktop.timedate1.conf
nm-dispatcher.conf        org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.conf

root@beagleboard:/etc/dbus-1/system.d# grep netdev *
root@beagleboard:/etc/dbus-1/system.d#=20

So it seems (but I am not certain!) that netdev is a relic of the past =
and can go away. What I would propose:

1) convert the existing *inst to useradd.bbclass
2) bump PR, remove netdev

That should give us a nice bisectable stack of commits.

regards,

Koen=