[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] powertop: inherit update-alternatives and use a higher priority than busybox

[Koen Kooi]

Op 8 jul. 2011 om 02:40 heeft "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui at intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 07/07/2011 01:39 AM, Dexuan Cui wrote:
>>> busybox-1.18.4 installs /bin/powertop and the powertop recipe
>>> installs /usr/bin/powertop. So, in PATH, if /bin appears before
>>> /usr/bin, we would run the version offered by busybox, which has a
>>> very limited function (e.g., no parameter is accepted) and this
>>> causes trouble to eclipse plugin. 
>>> 
>>> We can use update-alternatives for powertop with higher priority to
>>> resolve the issue. 
>>> 
>>> Fixes [YOCTO #1208]
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui at intel.com>
>> 
>> This fix seems a bit incomplete.  Why is busybox putting powertop into
>> /bin when it almost certainly belongs in /usr/bin like the real recipe
>> was placing it.  busybox needs a fix here too.
> Thanks for the comment! 
> I was hesitant about fixing busybox as I wasn't sure if it's worthy to make a patch to only fix the path for busybox. I don't know why busybox puts it into /bin. I think the best place may be /usr/sbin/. 
> A little unluckily this patch to powertop has been already in poky master... So maybe we could try to fix the recipes in future, e.g., when upgrading them.

we should do the right thing in oe-core,  the poky people can clean up on their own. 




> 
> Thanks,
> -- Dexuan
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