[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 083/113] procps: raise update-alternatives priority

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 22:20 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
> From: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
> 
> This fixes a problem with the uptime utility:
> 
> root at beagleboneA3-0088:/var/lib/cloud9# busybox uptime
>  16:00:17 up 2 days,  6:46,  load average: 0.14, 0.04, 0.05
> root at beagleboneA3-0088:/var/lib/cloud9# uptime.procps
>  16:00:22 up 2 days,  6:46,  1 user,  load average: 0.14, 0.05, 0.06
> root at beagleboneA3-0088:/var/lib/cloud9# uptime.coreutils
>  16:00pm  up 4382 days 15:58,  1 user,  load average: 0.13, 0.05, 0.05
> root at beagleboneA3-0088:/var/lib/cloud9# ls /usr/bin/uptime -la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 26 08:56 /usr/bin/uptime -> uptime.coreutils

If the coreutils uptime is broken (and assuming it isn't straightforward
to fix) then I would have thought the right thing would be to reduce the
priority of that one alternative rather than increasing all the others
to be higher.  Or just stop coreutils shipping uptime altogether I
suppose.  But, anyway, patching procps to work around a bug in coreutils
seems like the wrong thing.

p.