[oe] The coreutils-native race...

[Phil Blundell]

On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 10:48 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all.  I thought I would try and explain what Chris has been up to
> There's a few ways out of this:
> 1) Don't rely on 'cp' and 'md5sum' anymore but use python for it.
> 2) Make an oe_cp and oe_md5sum to go with oe_sha256sum
> 3) IIRC, the big part of coreutils-native was a fully functional,
> always, 'install'.  We could just copy the install we build or provide
> an install wrapper (oe_install) or so
> 4) ???

How about making the coreutils-native staging process be atomic, i.e.
install binaries as cp.new (or whatever) and then do "mv cp.new cp"?
Or, more generally I guess, arrange for new-style staging to do that for
all binaries it installs.

If (3) is sufficient then it seems like we might just as well exhume the
old install-native package and ditch coreutils-native altogether.  That
would avoid the race since it doesn't install anything other than
install.

p.