Re: [oe-commits] Chen Qi : busybox: add the ability to split the busybox binary

[ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>]

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On 07/01/2013 03:33 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> Hi Chen,
>
> 1) install image created before this change on target device (which 
> doesn't include coreutils, wget and is depending on usable busybox)
> 2) build feeds which include this change
> 3) run  "opkg update && opkg upgrade" on target device (or equivalent 
> in your favorite package manager)
> 4) you'll get unusable (and probably unbootable) system at this point, 
> because /bin/busybox binary from old busybox version was already 
> removed, but u-a symlinks to new /bin/busybox.(no)suid weren't created 
> because "sed" used in u-a doesn't work anymore.
>
> As work around I've used
> ln -s /bin/busybox.nosuid /bin/busybox
> to make old u-a links happy and able to finish postinst in new busybox 
> version.
>
> FWIW: having /bin/busybox -> busybox.nosuid sounds like good idea to 
> have "default" busybox in path for people who're running it directly.
>
> Regards,
>
Hi Martin,

I forgot the on device upgrade issue when I made the patchset.
Thank you for pointing it out.

I did some tests. The on device upgrade did broke with opkg as the 
package manager. RPM does not have this problem.

I'll make a follow-up patch to fix this problem tomorrow.

Thanks a lot,
Chen Qi




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