stat: use update-alt for stat

Three different recipes provide the stat program, busybox, coreutils and stat.
Ensure that they are installed to the same place and use update-alternative
with the correct priorities to have the correct binary installed.

[YOCTO #6415]

(From OE-Core rev: 2abc776393f8b5574dd9cf614ff1ae4b460e4d8c)

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/stat/stat_3.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/stat/stat_3.3.bb
index c9edb1de5b..6754fb8cbd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/stat/stat_3.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/stat/stat_3.3.bb
@@ -12,10 +12,17 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "37e247e8e400ad9205f1b0500b728fd3"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7071f0384a423a938dd542c1f08547a02824f6359acd3ef3f944b2c4c2d1ee09"
 
 do_install() {
-        install -d ${D}${bindir} ${D}${mandir}/man1
-        install -m 755 stat ${D}${bindir}
+        install -d ${D}${base_bindir} ${D}${mandir}/man1
+        install -m 755 stat ${D}${base_bindir}/stat.stat
         install -m 644 stat.1 ${D}${mandir}/man1
 }
 
+inherit update-alternatives
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "stat"
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[stat] = "200"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[stat] = "${base_bindir}/stat"
+ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[stat] = "${base_bindir}/stat.stat"
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"