dpkg may, but that's because dpkg is the Debian package manager and it follows Debian traditions. /usr/bin/pager is a Debianism: I suggest we just patch it to use 'less'.
Ross On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 10:47, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some system tools (like dpkg) expects a binary called pager when they > run on a interactive console. > > This patch addes this symlink via alternative, so other packages can > also provide this symlink. > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <[email protected]> > --- > meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb > b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb > index bb1618f1eb..8f59bd6087 100644 > --- a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb > +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_550.bb > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = > "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \ > file://LICENSE;md5=ba01d0cab7f62f7f2204c7780ff6a87d \ > " > DEPENDS = "ncurses" > +RPROVIDES_${PN} = "pager" > > SRC_URI = "http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \ > " > @@ -39,5 +40,6 @@ do_install () { > oe_runmake 'bindir=${D}${bindir}' 'mandir=${D}${mandir}' install > } > > -ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "less" > +ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "less pager" > ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100" > +ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[pager] = "/usr/bin/less.less" > -- > 2.20.1 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
