Re: of boot-floppies, busybox, debian-installer and woody
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> writes:
>
> > I would prefer using a busybox package. Otherwise, I will again end
> > up with the painful task of keeping two CVS trees in sync... The
> > busybox package has been ready to upload for months, but thus far
> > noone has pursued getting the new "installer" section added to the
> > archive.
>
> Getting sections added to the Debian archive sometimes takes years to
> happen.
>
> I suggest we find a better way. Why can't you simply provide, hmm,
> /usr/lib/busybox/bin/ and a script which could be run to make symlinks
> from that into /usr/bin/ at user request? Or we could even just put
> /usr/lib/busybox/bin on the path or something.
>
We could just start a page on sourceforge and put stuff there, then when
things are organised in the archives (years later) move them back to
debian.
Glenn
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