[OE-core] [PATCH V2] iputils: Fix postinst to run on cross rootfs generation

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 09:55 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> > Richard pointed out that with Pseudo the pkg_postinsts are un-needed, so I
> > offered a different patch to that effect.
> 
> yes I see
> 
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=a2bc81032c85548f7c72dc76e6020ab4df9af6de
> 
> how does it work on device installs isnt clear to me though
> 
> with existing patch atleast I understood that with Online Package
> management the postinst would run

The file has the right permissions in the package file now. This means
we don't need any postinst.

We used to have problems preserving permissions/owners in packages but
with pseudo, we don't, that is its big win.

So this was leftover stuff from a previous age :)

Cheers,

Richard