[yocto] busybox / sysklogd post install conflict

[Brian Walsh]

Yes if the links for busybox klogd and syslogd were only generated in
busybox-syslog that would fix the problem instead of putting the
update-alternative back in sysklogd.


On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:41 PM, ChenQi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
> Is it because that these two commands are packaged into busybox instead of
> busybox-syslog?
> If some layer introduces such change, then a bbappend file in that layer
> needs to be added to also modify sysklogd recipe accordingly.
>
> Anyway, thanks for raising this problem up. When checking the sysklogd
> recipe, I found a typo from my previous patch.
> I've sent out patch to fix it.
>
>   git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib ChenQi/sysklogd-typo
>   http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/sysklogd-typo
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Chen Qi
>
>
>
> On 05/22/2018 11:28 PM, Brian Walsh wrote:
>
> I have run into an issue building against sumo branch (using opkg if that
> matters). This patch removed the update-alternatives for sysklogd.
>
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c83eb10f70b714ce3a8c165fad547d800f3ed27d
>
> However, busybox is still configured with syslog support. The script that
> generates all of the symlinks for busybox runs during the main busybox
> package post install. This causes the post install to exit with an error
> since it can't create the links for klogd and syslogd if sysklogd is
> installed without update alternatives.
>
> From busybox.postinst:
>
> update-alternatives --install /sbin/klogd klogd /bin/busybox.nosuid 50
> update-alternatives --install /sbin/syslogd syslogd /bin/busybox.nosuid 50
>
> I think that patch needs to be reverted. The rconflicts for busybox-syslog
> and sysklogd takes care of the conflicting config file name that is shared
> between the two packages but we still need the update-alternatives. Unless
> the function that generates the busybox symlinks gets smart enough to
> generate the symlinks only in the busybox-syslog package.
>
>
>
>
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