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Stop using update-alternatives for init scripts

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1/6sysklogd: don't use update-alternativesmeta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc+1 -110 replies
2/6initscripts: don't use update-alternativesmeta/classes/update-rc.d.bbclass meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb +1 more+6 -90 replies
3/6lsbinitscripts: don't use update-alternativesmeta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.72.bb+2 -60 replies
4/6initscripts: rrecommend initscripts-functionsmeta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb+2 -00 replies
5/6Revert "classes: Fix alternatives and rc.d ordering"meta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass meta/classes/update-rc.d.bbclass+9 -400 replies
6/6update-alternatives.bbclass: refuse to manage SysV init scriptsmeta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass+4 -00 replies

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/6] Stop using update-alternatives for init scripts

This patchset does away with the usage of update-alternatives for managing init scripts. Using u-a for initscripts cause race/ordering issues with package scriptlets doing daemon stop/start/enable at package installation time. The patchset also reverts a kludge that was introduced in update-alternatives.bbclass and update-rc.d.bbclass to work around the aforementioned problems. Finally, it introduces sanity check to update-alternatives.bbclass to prevent usage of u-a for init scripts in the future.

[YOCTO #10944]

The following changes since commit 3b413a80578caacd9a7f405f3c51a3921d78a60d:

README.qemu: qemuppc64 is not supported (2017-10-16 23:54:27 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib marquiz/fixes-10944
http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=marquiz/fixes-10944

Markus Lehtonen (6):
sysklogd: don't use update-alternatives
initscripts: don't use update-alternatives
lsbinitscripts: don't use update-alternatives
initscripts: rrecommend initscripts-functions
Revert "classes: Fix alternatives and rc.d ordering" update-alternatives.bbclass: refuse to manage SysV init scripts

 meta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass         | 33 ++++++++----------------
 meta/classes/update-rc.d.bbclass                 | 23 +++--------------
 meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc   |  1 +
 meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb | 11 ++++----
 meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb   |  2 +-
 meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.72.bb |  8 ++----
 meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc      | 12 +--------
 7 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
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