[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] less: Create symlink for pager

[Burton, Ross]

dpkg may, but that's because dpkg is the Debian package manager and it
follows Debian traditions.  /usr/bin/pager is a Debianism: I suggest
we just patch it to use 'less'.

Ross

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 10:47, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
<ricardo at ribalda.com> wrote:
>
> Some system tools (like dpkg) expects a binary called pager when they
> run on a interactive console.
>
> This patch addes this symlink via alternative, so other packages can
> also provide this symlink.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo at ribalda.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb
> index bb1618f1eb..8f59bd6087 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
>                      file://LICENSE;md5=ba01d0cab7f62f7f2204c7780ff6a87d \
>                      "
>  DEPENDS = "ncurses"
> +RPROVIDES_${PN} = "pager"
>
>  SRC_URI = "http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
>           "
> @@ -39,5 +40,6 @@ do_install () {
>          oe_runmake 'bindir=${D}${bindir}' 'mandir=${D}${mandir}' install
>  }
>
> -ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "less"
> +ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "less pager"
>  ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
> +ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[pager] = "/usr/bin/less.less"
> --
> 2.20.1
>
> --
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