AccountsRepository should support roots othern than '/'

[dbender]

When attempting to install to an environment with a root != '/', AccountsRepository? gives a configuration error. This is blocking me from building me a tiny exherbo image.

[ciaranm]

We can't really do anything about this until the shadow maintainers add in support for it. They know we want it, but how long it'll take them is anyone's guess.

[dbender]

Acknowledged. According to  http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/managing-accounts-with-the-package-manager/ I can specify some other method managing users. I see that installed_accounts.conf has a key for "handler". Can I just change my handler to something else? What are the available choices?

[ciaranm]

That's the only handler we've implemented. The easiest way to cheat for chroots for now is to importare empty directories as the accounts and make extremely sure you've set up accounts correctly by hand, matching IDs on / with IDs in the chroot.

[dbender]

Here's what I did, moved out the accounts files and successfully ran importare. This is got me moving forward:

 # cp /etc/passwd* /tiny/sheeva/etc
 # mkdir /root/paludisbuild
 # cd /tiny/sheeva/etc/paludis
 # mv accounts.conf installed_accounts.conf ../
 # importare user/paludisbuild --location /root/paludisbuild -E :sheeva
 # importare user/sshd --location /root/paludisbuild -E :sheeva

thanks