[Buildroot] [PATCH] procps-ng: remove the remaining busybox symlinks

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, Vicente, All,

On 2016-01-12 21:12 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:23:01 +0000, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> > procps-ng is installed after busybox to ensure that its tools overwrite
> > the ones installed by busybox. However, some busybox symlinks for tools
> > which are now provided by procps-ng remain in /bin and /sbin pointing to
> > the busybox binary.
> > 
> > This shouldn't be a problem since the /usr/bin directory is listed
> > before /bin in the $PATH variable. However there could be some scripts
> > out there hardcoding the path of those tools calling them by "/bin/ps"
> > for instance.
> > 
> > So in order to avoid potential problems we just remove all busybox
> > symlinks for the tools which are now provided by procps-ng.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com>
[--SNIP--]
> I don't think we're doing it this way for any other package. In
> general, we either:
> 
>  * Arrange for the package to install its tools at the same location as
>    Busybox installs them.
> 
>  * Or add a post-install hook to move the binaries installed by the
>    package to where Busybox installs them.
> 
> Peter, Yann ?

Yes, I agree with Thomas. First solution is preferred if possible, of
course, so that we don't have to maintain the list of executables to
move in the post-install hook.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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