[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: makedevs only accepts numerical values

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Aug 29 08:36:44 UTC 2015


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:25:01 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Because of a limitation in how makedevs resolves names [0], usernames
> and groupnames would be resolved with UIDs and GIDs from the host, not
> the target.
> 
> Fixing makedevs would involve us rewriting a /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> parser (not too complex, still not trivial).
> 
> Document that the user and group fields should only be numbers, not
> names. Also, the manual is currently mislieading, as an example indeed

mislieading -> misleading typo fixed.

And patch applied to master, thanks!

Thomas
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