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Bug#326243: misleading description about --install



Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.01-1
Severity: normal

 This package installs the BusyBox binary but does not install symlinks
 for any of the supported utilities. You can use /bin/busybox --install
 to install BusyBox to the current directory (you do not want to do this
 in / on your Debian system!).

This implies that busybox --install will install links to the current
directory and also that it might replace exsiting prgrams on disk with
its symlinks. Neither is true. If I run busybox --install in /tmp:

link("/bin/busybox", "/usr/bin/which")  = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
link("/bin/busybox", "/usr/bin/who")    = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
link("/bin/busybox", "/usr/bin/whoami") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
link("/bin/busybox", "/usr/bin/xargs")  = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
link("/bin/busybox", "/usr/bin/yes")    = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
link("/bin/busybox", "/bin/zcat")       = -1 EEXIST (File exists)

So it always makes links to the real path of programs and it fails
if the programs exist.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages busybox depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

busybox recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo

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