[OE-core] [PATCH] readline/ediline: Fix conflicting manpages.

[Jacob Kroon]

On 2/22/20 7:54 PM, Jeremy A. Puhlman wrote:
> From: Jeremy Puhlman <jpuhlman at mvista.com>
> 
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/history.3 conflicts between attempted installs of libedit-doc-20191231+3.1-r0.corei7_64 and readline-doc-8.0-r0.corei7_64
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy A. Puhlman <jpuhlman at mvista.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc               | 8 +++++++-
>   meta/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20191231-3.1.bb | 6 ++++++
>   2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
> index 07f54a76f1..4babcbd69a 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
> @@ -44,7 +44,13 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
>   
>   CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/inputrc"
>   
> +inherit update-alternatives
> +
> +ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
> +ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "history.3"
> +ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[history.3] = "${mandir}/man3/history.3"
> +
>   # OpenSuse injects versions into libreadline leading to conficits between our native one and theirs
>   # see their spec file for where this is injected. Extra versioning is harmless so we just do the same.
>   SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://rl-native.map"
> -LDFLAGS_append_class-native = " -Wl,--version-script=${WORKDIR}/rl-native.map"
> \ No newline at end of file
> +LDFLAGS_append_class-native = " -Wl,--version-script=${WORKDIR}/rl-native.map"
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20191231-3.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20191231-3.1.bb
> index 7116c9ddbc..267fdcc54a 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20191231-3.1.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/libedit/libedit_20191231-3.1.bb
> @@ -17,3 +17,9 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2e22a51131de94ff2df24901f7cfe416"
>   SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "dbb82cb7e116a5f8025d35ef5b4f7d4a3cdd0a3909a146a39112095a2d229071"
>   
>   BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
> +
> +inherit update-alternatives
> +
> +ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "90"
> +ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "history.3"
> +ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[history.3] = "${mandir}/man3/history.3"
> 

With this change (I think), I now get a file

> +lrwxrwxrwx root       root               38 ./usr/share/man/man3/history.3 -> /usr/share/man/man3/history.3.readline

in my rootfs, which is wierd since I don't have any other man pages in 
my image..

/Jacob