Bug#823322: please build "systemd-sysusers" binary

[Felipe Sateler]

On 3 May 2016 at 09:51, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: systemd
> Version: 229-5
> Severity: normal
> Control: affects -1 rkt
>
> Currently systemd does not provide "systemd-sysusers" because of
>  "--disable-sysusers" build option.
>
> Would it be possible to build/provide "systemd-sysusers" please?
>
> "rkt" recently gained dependency on this binary (#823314)...

Additional info from rkt upstream in the linked reports:

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rkt takes the systemd-sysusers binary from the host and put it in
rkt's stage1. It does not run it directly on the host. So if the
Debian systemd package was providing the systemd-sysusers binary
without enabling it (e.g. without packaging
/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysusers.service or
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/*), that would work for rkt.
===

So, if we don't want to get in the business of defining users, just
providing the binary would be sufficient for this purpose.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler