[OE-core] [PATCH V2 1/1] coreutils: upgrade to 8.29

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 January 2018 at 16:47, Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod at windriver.com>
wrote:

> On 2018-01-11 11:18 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
>> On 9 January 2018 at 01:40, Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com <mailto:
>> Qi.Chen at windriver.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     * hostname is explicitly enabled to keep the same with previous
>> recipe's
>>        behaviour.
>>
>>
>> But buildhistory-diff:
>>
>> packages/corei7-64-poky-linux/coreutils/coreutils: FILELIST: added
>> "/usr/bin/hostname"
>>
>> So the old coreutils wasn't building hostname at all (we use
>> /bin/hostname from busybox).
>>
>

> Are you asking Chen to package coreutils.hostname and
> use the alternatives mechanism with busybox's hostname as the default?
> (busybox hostname has annoyed me in a past life!)
>

I'm not sure what I'm asking, just pointing out that the log is wrong as
the old coreutils wasn't building a hostname binary.

If someone sets base_bindir and bindir to the same directory then there
will be a conflict, so this does need to be sorted somehow.

Ross
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