[OE-core] [PATCH] bc: use update-alternatives to make dc play nice with busybox

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:38:04AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 02:11 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> > 
> > busybox' default configuration enables dc app, which bc also provides,
> > setup update-alternatives to resolve the conflict.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys at ti.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb |   13 +++++++++++--
> >  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb
> > index 02915e1..d8d8f4d 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb
> > @@ -11,11 +11,20 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
> >  
> >  SECTION = "base"
> >  DEPENDS = "flex"
> > -PR = "r0"
> > +PR = "r1"
> >  
> >  SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/bc/bc-${PV}.tar.gz"
> >  
> >  SRC_URI[md5sum] = "d44b5dddebd8a7a7309aea6c36fda117"
> >  SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4ef6d9f17c3c0d92d8798e35666175ecd3d8efac4009d6457b5c99cea72c0e33"
> >  
> > -inherit autotools
> > +do_install_append () {
> > +	mv ${D}${bindir}/dc ${D}${bindir}/dc.${PN}
> > +}
> > +
> > +inherit autotools update-alternatives
> > +
> > +ALTERNATIVE_NAME = "dc"
> > +ALTERNATIVE_LINK = "${bindir}/dc"
> > +ALTERNATIVE_PATH = "${bindir}/dc.${PN}"
> > +ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
> 
> 
> I think you should just be able to do:
> 
> """
> ALTERNATIVE_LINKS = "${bindir}/dc"
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
> 
> inherit autotools update-alternatives
> """
> 
> ?

Yes, quite right. I see plenty of other recipes do it the hard way though...

-- 
Denys