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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2011-11-03 00:26:17 +0000
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2011-11-03 00:26:17 +0000
commitcdee26f78315d439cbbdcfec4e8ff5ef35b02175 (patch)
tree929debfc104d3b414e3bd5d697a3f1d7d045936a /eclass/user.eclass
parentclean up egetent style to make it clear how it works (diff)
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restore egethome as some packages in the tree have been parsing getent directly for this
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diff --git a/eclass/user.eclass b/eclass/user.eclass
index 4631ca10e2ba..1ae623d38dbf 100644
--- a/eclass/user.eclass
+++ b/eclass/user.eclass
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/user.eclass,v 1.5 2011/11/03 00:24:19 vapier Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/user.eclass,v 1.6 2011/11/03 00:26:17 vapier Exp $
# @ECLASS: user.eclass
# @MAINTAINER:
@@ -404,3 +404,22 @@ enewgroup() {
esac
export SANDBOX_ON="${oldsandbox}"
}
+
+# @FUNCTION: egethome
+# @USAGE: <user>
+# @DESCRIPTION:
+# Gets the home directory for the specified user.
+egethome() {
+ local pos
+
+ case ${CHOST} in
+ *-darwin*|*-freebsd*|*-dragonfly*)
+ pos=9
+ ;;
+ *) # Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc...
+ pos=6
+ ;;
+ esac
+
+ egetent passwd $1 | cut -d: -f${pos}
+}