[OE-core] [PATCH] opkg-utils: allow disabling update-alternatives

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 06 August 2014 17:34:09 Sujith H wrote:
> From: Sujith H <Sujith_Haridasan at mentor.com>
> 
> This is needed to deal with the situation where we're using ipk packaging,
> so opkg-utils must be built regardless of what update-alternatives provider
> we prefer. The downside to the current implementation is the need to adjust
> PACKAGECONFIG as well as PREFERRED_PROVIDER, but it is more explicit that
> way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sujith H <Sujith_Haridasan at mentor.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb index 693c216..952fce4
> 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
> @@ -19,11 +19,17 @@ TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"
>  PYTHONRDEPS = "python python-shell python-io python-math python-crypt
> python-logging python-fcntl python-subprocess python-pickle
> python-compression python-textutils python-stringold"
> PYTHONRDEPS_class-native = ""
> 
> -PACKAGECONFIG = "python"
> +PACKAGECONFIG = "python update-alternatives"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[python] = ",,,${PYTHONRDEPS}"
> +PACKAGECONFIG[update-alternatives] = ",,,"
> +
> +PROVIDES_remove = "${@'virtual/update-alternatives' if
> 'update-alternatives' not in PACKAGECONFIG.split() else ''}"

If we have to do this, rather than using _remove here could we simply make 
adding it conditional?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre