[OE-core] [PATCH 0/6] Stop using update-alternatives for init scripts

Markus Lehtonen markus.lehtonen at linux.intel.com
Wed Nov 1 14:00:29 UTC 2017


This patchset does away with the usage of update-alternatives for managing init
scripts. Using u-a for initscripts cause race/ordering issues with package
scriptlets doing daemon stop/start/enable at package installation time. The
patchset also reverts a kludge that was introduced in
update-alternatives.bbclass and update-rc.d.bbclass to work around the
aforementioned problems. Finally, it introduces sanity check to
update-alternatives.bbclass to prevent usage of u-a for init scripts in the
future.

[YOCTO #10944]


The following changes since commit 3b413a80578caacd9a7f405f3c51a3921d78a60d:

  README.qemu: qemuppc64 is not supported (2017-10-16 23:54:27 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib marquiz/fixes-10944
  http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=marquiz/fixes-10944

Markus Lehtonen (6):
  sysklogd: don't use update-alternatives
  initscripts: don't use update-alternatives
  lsbinitscripts: don't use update-alternatives
  initscripts: rrecommend initscripts-functions
  Revert "classes: Fix alternatives and rc.d ordering"
  update-alternatives.bbclass: refuse to manage SysV init scripts

 meta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass         | 33 ++++++++----------------
 meta/classes/update-rc.d.bbclass                 | 23 +++--------------
 meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc   |  1 +
 meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb | 11 ++++----
 meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb   |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.72.bb |  8 ++----
 meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc      | 12 +--------
 7 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

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