[oe] [PATCH 05/12] Add alternatives to patch

[Martyn Welch]

Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia poniedziałek, 22 marca 2010 o 10:35:06 Martyn Welch napisał(a):
>   
>> This adds an alternatives link for /bin/sh to the bash package. When
>> installed this will make bash overide the busybox provided shell for
>> "/bin/sh". This may or may not be desirable, but including it does allow an
>> image to be provided without busybox.
>>     
>
> update-alternatives is shell script so we can end in shellless system ;(
>
> Regards, 
>   

Hm, hadn't appreciated that.

I'd assumed that this was the same as the update-alternatives used in
Debian, but looking in the relevant recipes directory I now appreciate
that this probably isn't the case. It looks like the "dpkg" version is
perl rather than shell and I assume it doesn't have the same problem
because perl isn't managed though the alternatives system. I suspect
there may be only one provider of perl...

Martyn

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