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Re: New busybox breaks everything



On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:58:23AM -0400 , Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> David Huggins-Daines <dhd@eradicator.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:45:05PM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> > > 1) Merge back in these functions from the old revision of busybox (this
> > > probably isn't very hard, it just consists of adding the code back in)
> > 
> > Er, on closer inspection this turns out not to be true.  This new busybox is
> > quite different from the old one.
> > 
> > Perhaps we should just revert to the old one?
> 
> Why?  What is breaking?  Can someone describe the problems introduced
> by the new busybox?  We can kick them over to Erik for fixing...

You are unable to compile dbootstrap. Busybox looks like it is intended
only as a stand-alone tool and not as helper functions for dbootstrap.
 
> As for whether this is official or an unofficial update, I think it's
> semi-official.

:)
> We can certainly roll back if we need to, but they built fine for me
> at least... (not tested).

busybox yes, but not the whole boot-floppies.

David (and me a bit) was looking into it. Some changes are almost trivial.
Other (mainly recursion through directories) while may not complicated,
whould add size to dbotostrap. I'll look at it more.

				Petr Cech
--
Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
           cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz


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