Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] coreutils: kill and uptime are no longer installed

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] coreutils: kill and uptime are no longer installed

[Randy MacLeod]

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On 2026-02-19 2:12 p.m., Randy MacLeod via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Randy MacLeod<Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
>
> In coreutils-9.10, as explained in:
>     6b399ad35 build: kill(1), uptime(1): don't install by default
>
>      * build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh: kill and uptime are not installed
>      by arch, debian, fedora, suse at least, so add to disabled list.
>      Fixeshttps://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/132
>
> Note that in oe-core:
>     kill is provided by busybox, procps and util-linux
>     uptime is provided by busybox and procps
> and in other layers there may be other providers of these commands.

This could and probably should be merged with:

    coreutils: upgrade 9.9 -> 9.10

but I wanted the change to get some attention so I've sent it separately.

../Randy


>
> Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod<Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.9.bb | 8 +++-----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.9.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.9.bb
> index 7deadded06..1a017cb0bb 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.9.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.9.bb
> @@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ bindir_progs = "arch basename cksum comm csplit cut dir dircolors dirname du \
>                   join link logname md5sum mkfifo nl nohup nproc od paste pathchk \
>                   pinky pr printf ptx readlink realpath seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum \
>                   sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sort split sum tac tail tee test timeout \
> -                tr truncate tsort tty unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes \
> +                tr truncate tsort tty unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes \
>                   ${selinux_progs}"
>   
> -base_bindir_progs = "cat chgrp chmod chown cp date dd echo false hostname kill ln ls mkdir \
> +base_bindir_progs = "cat chgrp chmod chown cp date dd echo false hostname ln ls mkdir \
>                        mknod mv pwd rm rmdir sleep stty sync touch true uname stat"
>   
>   sbindir_progs = "chroot"
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
>   # Make hostname's priority higher than busybox but lower than net-tools
>   ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[hostname] = "90"
>   ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "lbracket ${bindir_progs} ${base_bindir_progs} ${sbindir_progs} base32 base64 nice printenv mktemp df"
> -ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "base32.1 base64.1 nice.1 mktemp.1 df.1 groups.1 kill.1 uptime.1 stat.1 hostname.1"
> +ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-doc = "base32.1 base64.1 nice.1 mktemp.1 df.1 groups.1 stat.1 hostname.1"
>   
>   ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hostname.1] = "${mandir}/man1/hostname.1"
>   
> @@ -143,8 +143,6 @@ ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[lbracket] = "${bindir}/["
>   ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[lbracket] = "${bindir}/lbracket.${BPN}"
>   
>   ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[groups.1] = "${mandir}/man1/groups.1"
> -ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[uptime.1] = "${mandir}/man1/uptime.1"
> -ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[kill.1] = "${mandir}/man1/kill.1"
>   ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[stat.1] = "${mandir}/man1/stat.1"
>   
>   # The statx() requires glibc >= 2.28 and linux kernel >= 4.11, it doesn't work
>
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