update-alternatives.bbclass: refuse to manage SysV init scripts

Sanity check for future packages.

[YOCTO #10944]

(From OE-Core rev: 061fa614cec49deb0374ccadf3013e5cc8ad2c51)

Signed-off-by: Markus Lehtonen <markus.lehtonen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass b/meta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass
index 65cae7002f..aa01058cf9 100644
--- a/meta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/update-alternatives.bbclass
@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ python perform_packagecopy_append () {
             if not alt_link:
                 alt_link = "%s/%s" % (d.getVar('bindir'), alt_name)
                 d.setVarFlag('ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME', alt_name, alt_link)
+            if alt_link.startswith(os.path.join(d.getVar('sysconfdir', True), 'init.d')):
+                # Managing init scripts does not work (bug #10433), foremost
+                # because of a race with update-rc.d
+                bb.fatal("Using update-alternatives for managing SysV init scripts is not supported")
 
             alt_target   = d.getVarFlag('ALTERNATIVE_TARGET_%s' % pkg, alt_name) or d.getVarFlag('ALTERNATIVE_TARGET', alt_name)
             alt_target   = alt_target or d.getVar('ALTERNATIVE_TARGET_%s' % pkg) or d.getVar('ALTERNATIVE_TARGET') or alt_link