man-db: add volatile configuration file for sysvinit

Add volatile configuraiton file for man-db so that in sysvinit systems
we don't get failure when running `mandb'. The error message is like
below.

  mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/579: No such file or
  directory

[YOCTO #12872]

(From OE-Core rev: 2c480b363ae80dcc55ec0228f8af0311e023fbf4)

Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/99_mandb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/99_mandb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b8a1712b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/99_mandb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+d man man 0755 /var/cache/man none
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.3.bb
index a214bd7dd1..e1a7ad9d1e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.3.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://docs/COPYING.LIB;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 \
                     file://docs/COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
 
-SRC_URI = "${SAVANNAH_NONGNU_MIRROR}/man-db/man-db-${PV}.tar.xz"
+SRC_URI = "${SAVANNAH_NONGNU_MIRROR}/man-db/man-db-${PV}.tar.xz \
+           file://99_mandb"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6f3055e18fdd1ce5cbbdb30403991ec7"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5932a1ca366e1ec61a3ece1a3afa0e92f2fdc125b61d236f20cc6ff9d80cc4ac"
 
@@ -17,6 +18,15 @@ inherit gettext pkgconfig autotools
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-pager=less"
 
+do_install() {
+        autotools_do_install
+
+        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
+                install -d ${D}/etc/default/volatiles
+                install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/99_mandb ${D}/etc/default/volatiles
+        fi
+}
+
 do_install_append_libc-musl() {
         rm -f ${D}${libdir}/charset.alias
 }