From 9e85ca23f4e4297faa57808098b5d0211f58d4ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 03:03:04 +0000
Subject: Use an extra dummy group in coreutils chapter 6 so the coreutils
 chgrp tests will be run. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban for the catch.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8013 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/coreutils.xml | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06')

diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
index 84da49220..bd5286c24 100644
--- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
@@ -80,11 +80,22 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>make NON_ROOT_USERNAME=nobody check-root</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Then run the remainder of the tests as the
-    <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user:</para>
+    <para>We're going to run the remainder of the tests as the 
+    <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user. Certain tests,
+    however, require that the user be a member of more than one group. So that
+    these tests are not skipped we'll add a temporary group and make the
+    user <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> a part of it:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>echo "dummy:x:1000:nobody" &gt;&gt; /etc/group</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Now run the tests:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>su-tools nobody -s /bin/bash -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Remove the temporary group:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i '/dummy/d' /etc/group</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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