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

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 2:55 AM Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> 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'.


Moreover I don’t see pager binary on my system here

>
>
> 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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