[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] util-linux: Add missing ptest dependencies

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:09:16PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 05:18:25PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:03:37PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > > This pulls bc to many images with busybox, causing busybox postinst to fail
> > > with:
> > > 
> > > update-alternatives: Error: not linking /usr/bin/bc to /bin/busybox.nosuid
> > > since /usr/bin/bc exists and is not a link
> > 
> > Are you enabling CONFIG_BC in your busybox config?
> > It is not enabled in meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig
> 
> It's not disabled in my defconfig like it is in
> meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig, maybe it got auto enabled.
> 
> In log.do_configure I see:
> ...
> *
> * Miscellaneous Utilities
> *
> adjtimex (4.7 kb) (ADJTIMEX) [N/y/?] n
> bbconfig (9.7 kb) (BBCONFIG) [N/y/?] n
> bc (45 kb) (BC) [Y/n/?] (NEW) dc (36 kb) (DC) [Y/n/?] y
>   Use bc code base for dc (larger, more features) (FEATURE_DC_BIG) [Y] (NEW) y
>     Interactive mode (+4kb) (FEATURE_BC_INTERACTIVE) [Y/n/?] (NEW)     Enable bc/dc long options (FEATURE_BC_LONG_OPTIONS) [Y/n] (NEW) beep (2.4 kb) (BEEP) [N/y/?] n
> chat (6.3 kb) (CHAT) [N/y/?] n
> conspy (10 kb) (CONSPY) [N/y/?] n
> ...
> 
> > > I'll check which busybox defconfig entry enables BC and send patch to use
> > > u-a for bc in ./meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.07.1.bb
> > > 
> > > There already is:
> > > ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "dc"
> > > ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
> > > but maybe dc is a typo.
> > 
> > bc and dc are two different binaries built from bc.
> > 
> > busybox used to only have dc, bc was added 6 months ago.
> 
> Thanks I've never noticed dc before.
> 
> I see both dc and bc in 1.06 version from meta-gplv2 which was released
> on 2000-11-15
> 
> bc/1.06-r3/image/usr/bin/bc

Ah you were talking about busybox having only dc until 6 months ago.

Makes sense now, thanks.

> As there is already u-a for dc, I will sent u-a for bc as well.
> -- 
> Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com



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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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