[Toybox] Fix paths to avoid confusing update-alternatives

[Isaac Dunham]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 03:45:04PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > On 04/04/2015 02:08 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> >> df should certainly not be installed in /usr/sbin, since it is a user
> >> tool rather than a purely administrative one; cut is frequently used
> >> in boot scripts, which means it should go in the prefix "/", rather
> >> than "/usr"; and /etc/init.d/udev uses readlink specifically because
> >> it's in /bin rather than /usr/bin.
> >>
> >> These should be fixed in busybox.
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> > Yay fixing them. My concern is that openembedded's package management
> > system can actually package busybox so we can go into openembedded, and
> > from there into yocto and tizen.

> surely, some OE driven distros have feeds and its a bit harder to
> change the install locations
> without offerring an upgrade path, secondly, if busybox was to change
> the install locations that would be
> certainly a case to adopt for OE for now we just mimic'ed what we had
> in OE for path of least resistance
> goal is to make toybox replace as much as it can without putting extra
> requirements.

I've got a couple patches related to this that I'd like to run by you;
one addresses a couple path oddities in busybox, and the other changes
a bunch of toybox paths.

I'm attaching both.

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham
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