[PATCH 0/5] allow creation of users/groups before rootfs creation

["T. Schaffner" <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>]

From: Tobias Schaffner <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>

This patch series will allow to specify a `pre` flag for the USER_ and
GROUP_ bitbake variables. If this flag is set to `true` the given user
or group will be created in the rootfs configuration step instead of on
rootfs postprocessing. This is helpful when a specific id should be used
which would otherwise be picked by a user or group created by one of the
installed packages.

A rewrite of the image-account-extension in python was done on the way.
This allows us to drop a lot of encoding and parsing code that was used
to transition to shell and therefore made it easier to read and maintain.

Using python functions for more complex tasks allows us the usage of
unittests. A very basic infrastructure for unittesting using the build
in python unittest and the bb.parse module was added. This was used to
test the re-implementation of the image-account-extension as a first
showcase.

Tobias Schaffner (5):
  simplify image-account-extension
  allow creation of users/groups before rootfs creation
  create a minimal python unittest infrastructure
  add unittests for the image-account-extension
  set minimal python version in user_manual to 3.5

 doc/user_manual.md                            |   4 +-
 meta/classes/image-account-extension.bbclass  | 391 +++++++-----------
 testsuite/unittests/README.md                 |  28 ++
 testsuite/unittests/bitbake.py                |  37 ++
 testsuite/unittests/rootfs.py                 |  45 ++
 .../unittests/test_image_account_extension.py | 175 ++++++++
 6 files changed, 434 insertions(+), 246 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 testsuite/unittests/README.md
 create mode 100644 testsuite/unittests/bitbake.py
 create mode 100644 testsuite/unittests/rootfs.py
 create mode 100644 testsuite/unittests/test_image_account_extension.py

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