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| author | Patrick McDermott <pehjota> | 2020-11-11 01:14:35 (EST) |
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| committer | Patrick McDermott <pehjota> | 2020-11-11 01:14:35 (EST) |
| commit | 8109f0734cc34aed85fb2595be994f35b22e6293 (patch) | |
| tree | 37eacd5bc52697e827cb3a030b7d3de03593a1b1 | |
| parent | cbd739cb1a07bdd50f7db18c34db2fc960e679b8 (diff) | |
dev/todo/install-bb-without-bb: Maybe an env var?
| -rw-r--r-- | dev/todo/install-bb-without-bb.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/dev/todo/install-bb-without-bb.mdwn b/dev/todo/install-bb-without-bb.mdwn index c0a8273..f8e87f4 100644 --- a/dev/todo/install-bb-without-bb.mdwn +++ b/dev/todo/install-bb-without-bb.mdwn @@ -60,11 +60,12 @@ therefore utility links are not yet created). Once this new `opkg-lede` package is uploaded and `busybox` uses `update-alternatives` for everything, `busybox` would need to declare that it `Breaks` older versions of `opkg-lede`, to ensure that `opkg-lede` will preserve -a copy of the `busybox` executable and its utility links. **However, this is +a copy of the `busybox` executable and its utility links. However, this is still insufficient, as the version of `opkg` that is *running* must have already set up this environment before `busybox` is upgraded. `busybox`'s `prerm` script will need to check for this somehow and abort the upgrade if `opkg` is -too old to have prepared for a safe upgrade. More design work needed.** +too old to have prepared for a safe upgrade. One solution is for the `opkg` +script to set an `OPKG_BUSYBOX_SAVED` environment variable. The `opkg` script of the `opkg-lede` package will need to read `busybox`'s list of alternatives links. This is currently located at |