Re: [PATCH] iproute2: create symbol link '/bin/ip' to '/sbin/ip.iproute2'

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:01:17 +0800
Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@windriver.com> wrote:

> Some applications which depend on iproute/iproute2 need to
> run '/sbin/ip.iproute2' through the symbol link '/bin/ip'
> e.g ifupdown.

Update-alternatives is supposed to create this link already.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2.inc | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2.inc
> index 4fbfec6f08..71d04a1021 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2.inc
> @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ do_configure_append () {
>  do_install () {
>      oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install
>      mv ${D}${base_sbindir}/ip ${D}${base_sbindir}/ip.iproute2
> +    install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
> +    ln -s ${base_sbindir}/ip.iproute2 ${D}${base_bindir}/ip
>      install -d ${D}${datadir}
>      mv ${D}/share/* ${D}${datadir}/ || true
>      rm ${D}/share -rf || true