From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SZhoE-0002RE-TG for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 30 May 2012 14:15:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q4UC59Zm021867 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:05:09 +0100 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21779-04 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:05:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q4UC4x9c021852 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:05:00 +0100 Message-ID: <1338379499.20169.140.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:04:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] Refactor update-alternatives X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 12:15:27 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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