Re: Adding uniq/'sort -u' and sleep to busybox-udeb?

[Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:11:42AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I checked out the updated busybox-applets.txt, and discovered that the
> applet I need for cdrom-detect and kernel-chooser is missing on the
> list.  I would like to have 'uniq' or 'sort -u' working in the busybox
> udeb.  I reported this to BTS 149 days ago as bug #167473.

[sar@jacky]~/installer/tools/cdrom-detect$ find . -type f -print | \
xargs grep -E '(uniq|sort)'
[sar@jacky]~/installer/tools/cdrom-detect$

that why no one of these applets are included in the list.


> In addition, I would like to have 'sleep' available, mostly for giving
> me a chance to read debug messages when things go wrong.  I noticed
> Matt Kraai asked for the same thing 71 days ago as bug #177455.
> Adding sleep() is not very important for me, but it would be nice to
> have.
yes. good idea. it would be great.


Please included all missing binaries! After this we always know which
binaries should be included in the busybox packages.

But I have now idea how we should handle "usefull" binaries. If we
create a stage0 binary package, which contains only a small set of
applets (the absolute minimum), isn't the shell menu-point then useless?
What should the user do in the shell without so many binaries? eg
more/nano (please replace it :))/...

Bye
Thorsten


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