From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from exprod5og114.obsmtp.com ([64.18.0.28]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu1fQ-00034n-KT for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:49:03 +0100 Received: from source ([4.78.218.129]) (using TLSv1) by exprod5ob114.postini.com ([64.18.4.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKS6ib4WYyP7t4HVln5pvIJOXDdVGtHCFm@postini.com; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:45:54 PDT Received: from unknown (HELO alpmlip01.e2k.ad.ge.com) ([3.159.17.48]) by Cinmlip05.e2k.ad.ge.com with ESMTP; 23 Mar 2010 06:45:52 -0400 Received: from es-j7s4d2j.amer.consind.ge.com (HELO [3.138.54.92]) ([3.138.54.92]) by alpmlip01.e2k.ad.ge.com with ESMTP; 23 Mar 2010 06:45:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4BA89CA5.9040005@ge.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:49:09 +0000 From: Martyn Welch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <20100322092415.27540.53806.stgit@ES-J7S4D2J.amer.consind.ge.com> <20100322093506.27540.52750.stgit@ES-J7S4D2J.amer.consind.ge.com> <201003221053.22941.marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> In-Reply-To: <201003221053.22941.marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.18.0.28 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: martyn.welch@ge.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] Add alternatives to patch X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:49:03 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > Dnia poniedziałek, 22 marca 2010 o 10:35:06 Martyn Welch napisał(a): > >> This adds an alternatives link for /bin/sh to the bash package. When >> installed this will make bash overide the busybox provided shell for >> "/bin/sh". This may or may not be desirable, but including it does allow an >> image to be provided without busybox. >> > > update-alternatives is shell script so we can end in shellless system ;( > > Regards, > Hm, hadn't appreciated that. I'd assumed that this was the same as the update-alternatives used in Debian, but looking in the relevant recipes directory I now appreciate that this probably isn't the case. It looks like the "dpkg" version is perl rather than shell and I assume it doesn't have the same problem because perl isn't managed though the alternatives system. I suspect there may be only one provider of perl... Martyn -- Martyn Welch (Principal Software Engineer) | Registered in England and GE Intelligent Platforms | Wales (3828642) at 100 T +44(0)127322748 | Barbirolli Square, Manchester, E martyn.welch@ge.com | M2 3AB VAT:GB 927559189