Re: Updates to ash and busybox
On Sat Sep 25, 1999 at 12:21:46AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Would folks be interested in me making a .deb out of this? It would only
> > take a few minutes, and would avoid needing to hide the source in the
> > boot-floppies package, per the current way of doing stuff.
>
> I think this is a good idea -- however, busybox is actually maintained
> by Bruce Perens. Have you gotten in touch with him?
Sortof maintained by Bruce. He hasn't put much work into it for a
long while now. Most recent patches that I am aware of have come from
Dave Cinege and the LRP folks. I contacted Bruce about taking over
maintainance, and he replied:
I am in the happy position of having a paid person of my own who
will be taking this on within two months. However, I'd be happy to
see an interim release.
No disrespect to Bruce, but I'll believe it when I see it. Meanwhile,
I'll be making an interim release Real Soon Now(tm). I have searched
the net and found a number of patches and bug reports. I've applied the
patches that made sense, fixed the bugs I found reported, and I've fixed
up some general stuff that was begging to be improved.
Any feature requests from the boot floppy team?
> If there are fixes and whatnot, do you think for now you could perhaps
> patch the busybox as found in the boot-floppies CVS area? Do you need
> info on how to get at that area?
Yes, could you point me to the CVS archive? Is anonymous access
available via pserver or ssh, or will I need an account? I'll be glad to
make up a diff for you...
> Hurm. Could you get in touch with the ash maintainer? If there's an
> updated ash in potato, we'll use it in boot-floppies...
I'm talking with Herbert Xu about my changes right now. His first
reaction was not positive, but I think he mistakenly thought I was
linking ash with libreadline (not the case), so I'm still working on
getting my changes into potato. I suppose if my changes show up, you'll
be getting them.
-Erik
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