From: Jackie Huang <jackie.hu...@windriver.com> '\>' is to matches the end of a word, but the executable is not always a 'word', e.g. /usr/lib64/busybox/usr/bin/[
then such alternatives can not be removed. So change to use '\s' in the pattern since the following character of the $path is whitespace. Signed-off-by: Jackie Huang <jackie.hu...@windriver.com> --- update-alternatives | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/update-alternatives b/update-alternatives index ffad853..ce7d66c 100644 --- a/update-alternatives +++ b/update-alternatives @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ remove_alt() { [ ! -f $ad/$name ] && return 0 path=`echo $path | protect_slashes | protect_special_character` - sed -ne "/^$path\>.*/!p" $ad/$name > $ad/$name.new + sed -ne "/^$path\s.*/!p" $ad/$name > $ad/$name.new mv $ad/$name.new $ad/$name } -- 2.7.4 -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto