1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass b/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass
index 0b9a843b24..e443f845f7 100644
--- a/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/useradd.bbclass
@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ if test "x$D" != "x"; then
         # Installing into a sysroot
         SYSROOT="$D"
         OPT="--root $D"
+
+        # Make sure login.defs is there, this is to make debian package backend work
+        # correctly while doing rootfs.
+        # The problem here is that if /etc/login.defs is treated as a config file for
+        # shadow package, then while performing preinsts for packages that depend on
+        # shadow, there might only be /etc/login.def.dpkg-new there in root filesystem.
+        if [ ! -e $D${sysconfdir}/login.defs -a -e $D${sysconfdir}/login.defs.dpkg-new ]; then
+            cp $D${sysconfdir}/login.defs.dpkg-new $D${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+        fi
+
         # user/group lookups should match useradd/groupadd --root
         export PSEUDO_PASSWD="$SYSROOT:${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}"
 fi