[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/iputils: fix IPUTILS_PERMISSIONS

[Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

> Hello,

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:32:36 +0200
> Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The only thing to consider:
> > Upstream doesn't care much about systems without usr merge.
> > I wonder if systems without it (unset BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR),
> > whether we want to have /bin/ping and symlinked it into /usr/bin/ping.
> > I see this is handled for coreutils (COREUTILS_BIN_PROGS).

> What COREUTILS_CLEANUP_BIN is doing is not to install a symlink
> between /bin/foo and /usr/bin/foo. Indeed, such a symlink is not
> necessary: both /bin and /usr/bin are in the PATH, so having /bin/foo
> and /usr/bin/foo is totally useless.

> What COREUTILS_CLEANUP_BIN does is to make sure that in a
> non-BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR case, the symlinks to coreutils are installed
> in the same location as the corresponding Busybox applets, so that we
> properly handle the conflict between Busybox applets and full-blown
> variants, as I explained in my reply to your comments on PATCH 1/2.

Thanks for an explanation.

Kind regards,
Petr

> Best regards,

> Thomas