[OE-core] Clashing man pages

[Paul Barker]

On 19 May 2013 13:54, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 01:00:24PM +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
>> I'm generating a rootfs image which I intend to be usable
>> interactively so I've added IMAGE_FEATURES += "doc-pkgs" to my image
>> recipe. do_rootfs fails with the following clashes:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> The best fix I can think of at the minute is to add a bbappend to my
>> layer which removes the clashing man pages from one of the packages in
>> each case, leaving the files just in the package I do want to take
>> precedence. If anyone has any better ideas let me know.
>>
>> I know we have update-alternatives for executables but is there a way
>> to link this with the relevant man page? So for example when I select
>> kill from coreutils, kill.1 is provided by coreutils as well, when I
>> select kill from util-linux, kill.1 is provided by util-linux as well.
>
> There was some discussion about this already
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-January/034744.html
> but only response I got was about conflicting /usr/share/info/dir :/
>

Just looked at the recipe for util-linux and there's already some
update-alternatives stuff for man pages so it should be possible to
add entries for kill.1 and reset.1. Will put this onto my todo list.

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Paul Barker

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