Charles-Henri Gros wrote: > Joel Newkirk wrote: >> Quick question, hopefully someone can instantly see my error: >> >> I've built the full iproute2 toolset, and am working on an ipk/opk for ip >> and tc. >> >> The default om2008 at least, has /bin/ip linked to /bin/busybox. So that >> should be changed. For inspiration, I looked at the postinst script for >> grep, since it must perform the same changes. (point at full bin instead >> of busybox in postinst, restore in prerm) So I took the >> update-alternatives line from grep's postinst and simply replaced 'grep' >> with 'ip' everywhere. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ip ip ip.ip 100 >> update-alternatives: Error: cannot register alternative ip to /usr/bin/ip >> since it is already registered to /bin/ip >> >> Isn't this the point of update-alternatives - to allow multiple possible >> binaries, and 'register' the one with highest priority? What have I done >> wrong? And why is the <path> component grep.grep (or in my case ip.ip)?? > > grep.grep is the binary that contains what the "grep" package installs. > You should probably install your "ip" as "ip.ip", or use /usr/bin/ip (if > that's where you install it) > > So the command would look like (I think): > update-alternatives --install /bin/ip ip /usr/bin/ip 100
I would not recommend that command. For update-alternatives to work, all the packages which install that binary have to agree on the final path of the binary. You can't have one package wanting to install it in /bin and the other wanting to install it in /usr/bin. So first you need to modify all the packages so they install into the same directory. Then you go and put the update-alternatives stuff in, and you make each package install the binary in /path/<binary-name>.<package-name> (e.g. /bin/ip.ip and /bin/ip.busybox). Then you get update-alternatives to symlink one of those to the final binary filename in the postinst. -- Rod _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community