Re: [PATCH 00/30] Refactor update-alternatives

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 14:30 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> This set of commits refactors update-alternatives.  The primary purpose 
> is to cover all of the corner cases currently in oe-core (and hopefully 
> other layers) so that recipes can all use the update-alternatives class, 
> instead of manual update-alternatives calls in man post install/remove 
> scripts.
> 
> The refactored update-alternatives is compatible with the older methods, 
> but does indicate they are deprecated via a warning message.  One of the 
> key changes is that all referenced alternatives are not added to the 
> per-file dependency information.  For example, gawk sets up an 
> alternative for 'awk'.  The /bin/gawk binary now says it provides 
> /bin/awk, so that the package management systems that use per file 
> dependencies (i.e. RPM), will be able to find the minimum set of 
> packages to resolve the image.
> 
> In addition, to all of that, the references have been changed from 
> ".${PN}" to ".${BPN}" for alternatives.  This will allow the multilib
> system to work as intended by resolving multilib binaries.
> 
> All of the work has been tested using buildhistory and building various 
> images.  Buildhistory indicated only expected changes were performed.
> 
> (To avoid spamming the list, I have decided to only send the first 3 
> patches, lrzsz, busybox, util-linux and shadow-native as this is a 
> reasonable representation of the changes.  Please see the referenced 
> repository and branch below for full details on the series.)
> 
> *** BLURB HERE ***
> The following changes since commit e6333825c3482a559a0c0499e17f8f48d3042ddf:
> 
>   tune-mips64.inc: Add new tune file for mips64 big-endian (2012-05-20 20:24:37 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib mhatle/upd-alt-2
>   http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=mhatle/upd-alt-2
> 
> Mark Hatle (30):
>   update-alternatives.bbclass: Refactor the implementation
>   update-alternatives.bbclass: Change from using PN to BPN
>   which: use BPN for alternatives
>   wget: use BPN for alternatives
>   time: use BPN for alternatives
>   shadow: use BPN for alternatives
>   sed: use BPN for alternatives
>   mktemp: use BPN for alternatives
>   less: use BPN for alternatives
>   patch: use BPN for alternatives
>   tinylogin: use BPN for alternatives
>   sysvinit: use new update-alternatives
>   lrzsz: use new update-alternatives
>   openssh: use new update-alternatives
>   busybox: use new update-alternatives
>   coreutils: use new update-alternatives
>   dropbear: use new update-alternatives
>   ncurses: use new update-alternatives
>   psplash: use new update-alternatives
>   util-linux: use new update-alternatives
>   binutils: use new update-alternatives
>   tar: use new update-alternatives
>   opkg: use new update-alternatives
>   cpio: use new update-alternatives
>   grep: use new update-alternatives
>   iputils: use new update-alternatives
>   psmisc: use new update-alternatives
>   sysklogd: use new update-alternatives
>   kmod: use new update-alternatives
>   shadow-utils-native: remove unnecessary alternatives

Merged to master, thanks.

I've noticed a few issues and this obviously introduces a lot of warning
messages. I've posted a couple of fixes but we need a plan to get the
warnings resolved...

Cheers,

Richard