On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:48:04 -0400 David Michael <fedora....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:37 AM Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 15:54:14 -0400 > > David Michael <fedora....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > This fix might not be so straightforward. A configuration I > > > tested hit a dependency loop with shadow -> pambase -> systemd -> > > > a bunch of groups -> shadow. It is possible to bootstrap around > > > by emerging shadow with no USE flags first, but I don't know how > > > acceptable it is to introduce new dep loops like this. > > > > what happens without your change ? > > Someone reported an issue in https://bugs.gentoo.org/720948 that > showed shadow and groups are not ordered during installation. I am > not sure what environment produced those symptoms since I never > encountered it, but you can rage-clean shadow and a group, delete the > group, then reinstall it to reproduce the problem. > Yep, that's exactly why one needs the change you are proposing. The dependency loop needs to be resolved, but introducing it like that is IMHO better than failing like in the above bug because it is not resolved properly.
