[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] bash: use update-alternatives for the bash binary

Andreas Oberritter obi at opendreambox.org
Mon Jan 30 22:21:14 UTC 2017


Ping.

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:50:26 +0100
Andreas Oberritter <obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:

> Busybox may offer a bash applet. If enabled, the alternatives mechanism
> avoids breaking logins if bash gets deinstalled while /bin/bash is configured
> as a login shell.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi at opendreambox.org>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
> index 1d08526..a05b987 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
> @@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-job-control --without-bash-malloc"
>  # This is what other major distros do. And this is what we wanted. See bug#5359 and bug#7137.
>  CFLAGS += "-DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS"
>  
> -ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "sh"
> +ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "bash sh"
> +ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[bash] = "${base_bindir}/bash"
> +ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[bash] = "${base_bindir}/bash"
>  ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sh] = "${base_bindir}/sh"
> -ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[sh] = "${base_bindir}/bash"
> +ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[sh] = "${base_bindir}/bash.${BPN}"
>  ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
>  
>  RDEPENDS_${PN} += "base-files"




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