[OE-core] [PATCH] util-linux: make alternatives for rev and ionice work with busybox

[Niko Mauno]

On 11/9/18 2:24 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 10:58, Pascal Bach <pascal.bach at siemens.com> wrote:
>> Busybox can provide ionice and rev. They are both installed to /bin
>> The corresponding util-linux variant is installed to /usr/bin
>>
>> This causes the following error during the do_rootfs task:
>>
>>> update-alternatives: renaming ionice link from /bin/ionice to /usr/bin/ionice
>>> mv: cannot stat '/bin/ionice': No such file or directory
>>
>> Moving the util-linux binaries to /bin avoids this error.
> 
> Isn't it simpler to just set ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[ionice] =
> "${base_bindir}/ionice" (so the system knows to use the same symlink
> for this and busybox) instead of actually moving the binary too?
> 
> Ross
> 

Case being that busybox has ionice and rev under /bin/ whereas 
util-linux under /usr/bin/, I wonder would the prudent course of action 
at this point rather be to revert the 'ionice' and 'rev' specific bits 
that were introduced (along 'cal') in 
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc?id=78db831a7b0c2361a266eb37c7cbf2e368d2280a 


-Niko