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Bug#266057: marked as done (busybox-cvs-udeb: 'help' does not show nc (netcat) as available command)

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regarding busybox-cvs-udeb: 'help' does not show nc (netcat) as available command
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb
Version: 20040623-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i

When I use the 'help' command in a Debian Installer shell, the nc command is 
missing from the list even though it is available.
Possibly the same goes for other commands.

(I'm not sure if I've assigned this to the correct package.)

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--- Begin Message --- 
16.08.2004 18:57, Frans Pop wrote:
> Package: busybox-cvs-udeb
> Version: 20040623-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: d-i
> 
> When I use the 'help' command in a Debian Installer shell, the nc command is 
> missing from the list even though it is available.
> Possibly the same goes for other commands.

The built-in shell's "help" command is supposed to list
only shell primitives, such as cd, export, shift, and
built-in commands to the _shell_.  Not all commands
available in busybox are built-in to its shell.  So
there's no bug in there to start with.

Actually this is not whole story.  busybox ash has an
option to be compiled as a "standalone shell", so that
all other busybox commands becomes its built-ins.  This
is a hack that lets you to have just one binary without
installing links to it with appropriate names.  When
this mode is enabled in busybox (compile-time option),
it shows all enabled commands in help output.  But this
mode should not be used because you can't control which
commands are used for what - it may cost you lots of
debugging efforts to understand why some command works
fine when you invoke it directly and fails badly when
you run it from busybox, -- just because busybox version
has less features than you expect.  -udeb version does
not currently enable this "standalone shell" mode.

Thanks!

/mjt

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