On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:23 AM Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Freaking yahoo email seems to have no option any more to quote decently.
> Guess it is time for a new email provider :-)
> Anyway my response below prefixed with FM:
>
> Op dinsdag 9 maart 2021 00:26:05 CET schreef Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com>:
> On 3/8/21 2:25 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:15 PM Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 3/8/21 2:11 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 11:30 AM Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> From: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbro...@yahoo.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> resolvconf uses flock and readlink.
> >>>> So explicitly added dependencies on util-linux (for flock) and coreutils
> >>>> (for readlink).
> >>>> Note that the options used with flock and readlink are not part of the
> >>>> busybox implementations so full-fledged implementations are needed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    meta/recipes-connectivity/resolvconf/resolvconf_1.87.bb | 2 +-
> >>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/resolvconf/resolvconf_1.87.bb 
> >>>> b/meta/recipes-connectivity/resolvconf/resolvconf_1.87.bb
> >>>> index 6df96b699c..6da8cd6023 100644
> >>>> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/resolvconf/resolvconf_1.87.bb
> >>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/resolvconf/resolvconf_1.87.bb
> >>>> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
> >>>>    LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = 
> >>>> "file://COPYING;md5=c93c0550bd3173f4504b2cbd8991e50b"
> >>>>    AUTHOR = "Thomas Hood"
> >>>>    HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.debian.org/resolvconf";
> >>>> -RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash"
> >>>> +RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash coreutils util-linux"
> >>>
> >>> util-linux-flock has its own package.
> >>
> >> yeah and busybox also provides flock too. Lets drop it
> >
> > Busybox provides flock, but it doesn't support the -w option (wait
> > with timeout). Either the util-linux flock is required or resolvconf
> > needs to be patched to drop the -w option.
>
> right, its to explore possibilities to avoid the deps.
>
> FM: While I am all in favor of avoiding these dependencies, I'm not versed 
> enough in the resolvconf code to judge the impact of dropping -w, so my 
> preference would be to depend on util-linux-flock.

Agreed. Adding a runtime dependency on util-linux-flock is the safest fix.

> >>> Patching resolvconf to use readlink -f (instead of readlink -m) should
> >>> be sufficient to allow it to work with busybox readlink.
>
> FM: this will most likely work. I can make a patch for that, no problem.

For reference, there's a patch which does that here:

  
https://github.com/lgirdk/meta-mng/blob/ofw/recipes-misc/resolvconf/resolvconf/0001-try-to-support-busybox-readlink.patch

> >>>>    SRC_URI = 
> >>>> "git://salsa.debian.org/debian/resolvconf.git;protocol=https;branch=unstable
> >>>>  \
> >>>>              file://fix-path-for-busybox.patch \
> >>>> --
> >>>> 2.30.1
>
> On a general note: in the current form the package is broken, so some fix is 
> desirable.

Agreed.
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