Bug 4926 - su conflicts between attempted installs of util-linux and shadow
Summary: su conflicts between attempted installs of util-linux and shadow
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 1.5
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 1.5 M3
Assignee: Hongxu Jia
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Reported: 2013-07-26 10:27 UTC by Hongxu Jia
Modified: 2013-10-08 15:34 UTC (History)
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Description Hongxu Jia 2013-07-26 10:27:00 UTC 
*env
git branch: master 67864ca79da08df752487a3a4e1a975546da123d
vim local.conf
...
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " util-linux shadow"
...

*problem
build core-image-sato
...
Committing transaction...                                                                                             
| Preparing...                    ######################################## [  0%]
| error: file /usr/bin/su conflicts between attempted installs of util-linux-2.23.1-r0.mips32 and shadow-4.1.4.3-r13.mips32
...

*solution
Use alternatives mechanism to prevent confliction among
busybox, shadow and util-linux on su binary.
Comment 2 Razvan Ionescu 2013-10-08 15:34:52 UTC 
Verified with poky: 16ce101c3f9b43ba329b6e57ee0c658907da6138 .
No more issues appeared during the build.