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+SUMMARY = "Base system master password/group files"
+DESCRIPTION = "The master copies of the user database files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group).  The update-passwd tool is also provided to keep the system databases synchronized with these master files."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://launchpad.net/base-passwd"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://launchpad.net/debian/+archive/primary/+files/${BPN}_${PV}.tar.xz \
+           file://0001-Add-a-shutdown-group.patch \
+           file://0002-Use-bin-sh-instead-of-bin-bash-for-the-root-user.patch \
+           file://0003-Remove-for-root-since-we-do-not-have-an-etc-shadow.patch \
+           file://0004-Add-an-input-group-for-the-dev-input-devices.patch \
+           file://0005-Add-kvm-group.patch \
+           file://0006-Make-it-possible-to-configure-whether-to-use-SELinux.patch \
+           "
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "6ff369be59d586ba63c0c5fcb00f75f9953fe49db88bc6c6428f2c92866f79af"
+
+# the package is taken from launchpad; that source is static and goes stale
+# so we check the latest upstream from a directory that does get updated
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/b/base-passwd/"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/work"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG = "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'selinux', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = "--enable-selinux, --disable-selinux, libselinux"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-debconf --disable-docs"
+
+NOLOGIN ?= "${base_sbindir}/nologin"
+
+do_install () {
+	install -d -m 755 ${D}${sbindir}
+	install -o root -g root -p -m 755 ${B}/update-passwd ${D}${sbindir}/
+	install -d -m 755 ${D}${mandir}/man8 ${D}${mandir}/pl/man8
+	install -p -m 644 ${S}/man/update-passwd.8 ${D}${mandir}/man8/
+	install -p -m 644 ${S}/man/update-passwd.pl.8 \
+		${D}${mandir}/pl/man8/update-passwd.8
+	gzip -9 ${D}${mandir}/man8/* ${D}${mandir}/pl/man8/*
+	install -d -m 755 ${D}${datadir}/base-passwd
+	install -o root -g root -p -m 644 ${S}/passwd.master ${D}${datadir}/base-passwd/
+	sed -i 's#:/root:#:${ROOT_HOME}:#' ${D}${datadir}/base-passwd/passwd.master
+	sed -i 's#/usr/sbin/nologin#${NOLOGIN}#' ${D}${datadir}/base-passwd/passwd.master
+	install -o root -g root -p -m 644 ${S}/group.master ${D}${datadir}/base-passwd/
+
+	install -d -m 755 ${D}${docdir}/${BPN}
+	install -p -m 644 ${S}/debian/changelog ${D}${docdir}/${BPN}/
+	gzip -9 ${D}${docdir}/${BPN}/*
+	install -p -m 644 ${S}/README ${D}${docdir}/${BPN}/
+	install -p -m 644 ${S}/debian/copyright ${D}${docdir}/${BPN}/
+}
+
+basepasswd_sysroot_postinst() {
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Install passwd.master and group.master to sysconfdir
+install -d -m 755 ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${sysconfdir}
+for i in passwd group; do
+	install -p -m 644 ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${datadir}/base-passwd/\$i.master \
+		${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${sysconfdir}/\$i
+done
+
+# Run any useradd postinsts
+for script in ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${bindir}/postinst-useradd-*; do
+	if [ -f \$script ]; then
+		\$script
+	fi
+done
+}
+
+SYSROOT_DIRS += "${sysconfdir}"
+SYSROOT_PREPROCESS_FUNCS += "base_passwd_tweaksysroot"
+
+base_passwd_tweaksysroot () {
+	mkdir -p ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${bindir}
+	dest=${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${bindir}/postinst-${PN}
+	echo "${basepasswd_sysroot_postinst}" > $dest
+	chmod 0755 $dest
+}
+
+python populate_packages:prepend() {
+    # Add in the preinst function for ${PN}
+    # We have to do this here as prior to this, passwd/group.master
+    # would be unavailable. We need to create these files at preinst
+    # time before the files from the package may be available, hence
+    # storing the data from the files in the preinst directly.
+
+    f = open(d.expand("${STAGING_DATADIR}/base-passwd/passwd.master"), 'r')
+    passwd = "".join(f.readlines())
+    f.close()
+    f = open(d.expand("${STAGING_DATADIR}/base-passwd/group.master"), 'r')
+    group = "".join(f.readlines())
+    f.close()
+
+    preinst = """#!/bin/sh
+mkdir -p $D${sysconfdir}
+if [ ! -e $D${sysconfdir}/passwd ]; then
+\tcat << 'EOF' > $D${sysconfdir}/passwd
+""" + passwd + """EOF
+fi
+if [ ! -e $D${sysconfdir}/group ]; then
+\tcat << 'EOF' > $D${sysconfdir}/group
+""" + group + """EOF
+fi
+"""
+    d.setVar(d.expand('pkg_preinst:${PN}'), preinst)
+}
+
+addtask do_package after do_populate_sysroot
+
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-update"
+FILES:${PN}-update = "${sbindir}/* ${datadir}/${PN}"
+
+pkg_postinst:${PN}-update () {
+#!/bin/sh
+if [ -n "$D" ]; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+${sbindir}/update-passwd
+}