Re: [PATCH 1/1] util-linux: Add missing ptest dependencies

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:03:37PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> This pulls bc to many images with busybox, causing busybox postinst to fail
> with:
> 
> update-alternatives: Error: not linking /usr/bin/bc to /bin/busybox.nosuid
> since /usr/bin/bc exists and is not a link

Are you enabling CONFIG_BC in your busybox config?
It is not enabled in meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig

> I'll check which busybox defconfig entry enables BC and send patch to use
> u-a for bc in ./meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.07.1.bb
> 
> There already is:
> ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "dc"
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
> but maybe dc is a typo.

bc and dc are two different binaries built from bc.

busybox used to only have dc, bc was added 6 months ago.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed