> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> Sent: den 22 maj 2026 16:27
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/5] useradd_base.bbclass: Emulate the 
> groupmems command using usermod
> 
> On 12 May 2026, at 20:04, Peter Kjellerstedt via lists.openembedded.org 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The groupmems command does to support the --prefix option, which is
> > being used since commit a7b846ba7d6d63a5e59939d75d9c5fe3e4cbb0e9.
> > However, the groupmems command can easily be emulated using the usermod
> > command.
> 
> This emulation assumes that the only valid GROUPMEMS_PARAM are of the form
> '—add [user] —group [group]’ and never used '—delete’, but it looks like
> the shell script actually mandates that.  Might be worth a note that
> whilst it appears that GROUPMEMS_PARAM supports arbitrary options, it
> actually doesn’t.
> 
> Ross

You are correct. I have sent an updated patch series, where I have 
updated the function to fail if the user and/or the group are not 
specified. This would happen before as well, but now it shows an 
appropriate error message rather than the help output from usermod.

//Peter

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