[OE-core] [PATCH] Small improvement for the initscripts package

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 09/29/2017 11:38 AM, Jef.Driesen at niko.eu wrote:
> For our system, we are using some custom initscripts. Because of
> that, some files conflict with the initscripts package, and thus the
> initscript package gets removed from our build. But when trying to
> build an sdk, somehow the initscripts-dev package gets pulled in, and
> since that has an automatic dependency on initscripts, our build
> fails.

Please do find out why this happens; that's what you really need to fix.

> I've been trying to find out why this happens, but without much
> success so far. But I did found a simple workaround: remove the
> initscripts-dev package completely. Since the initscripts recipe
> contains some shell scripts the initscript-dev is empty anyway.
> 
> I've fixed this locally with a bbappend, but this is probably
> something that can be applied upstream.

You can use bbappend to instead replace the standard files with the ones 
that you want installed. Or you can add PROVIDES = "initscripts" to your 
recipe with the 'custom' initscripts, and set 
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_initscripts = "my-custom-initscripts" to have that 
installed.


Alex