[uClibc] PATCH: My patches adapted to current cvs

[Ned Ludd]

> > 12. No comment, I have no idea as to why this is needed.
> 
> many packages make use of getent instead of grepping passwd/group to check 
> for existence of a user/group in post-install-scripts 
> (rpms/debs/tbz2/tgz). 
> They use it because the user/group db could be located on an ldap or 
> nis server and getent from glibc is ldap/nis aware. uclibc does not 
> support (yet) ldap and won't support nis, so this simulates the glibc 
> getent binary based on passwd/group/aliases/hosts/networks and so on... 
> and allows it to be used as drop in replacement. Currently gentoo makes 
> use of it, and I am using it w/ my rpms.

This file was the life saver. 
Do you think uClibc/extra/scripts/ would be a better place for it over
docs/ however?

-- 
Ned Ludd <solar at gentoo.org>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded) Developer
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