Re: busybox in woody (was Re: first weekly debian-installer status report)
I'm not sure whether this would fit, but wouldn't it be a lot
easier to put /usr/lib/busybox/* as the first directory in the PATH
environment?
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Matt Rose mattrose@folkwolf.net http://www.folkwolf.net
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On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Sun Nov 12, 2000 at 03:11:53PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > >
> > > Once Erik uploads busybox udebs, he will also be uploading the source,
> > > and I think a regular .deb with busybox packaged for a regular system.
> > > So the boot-floppies can use either of those.
> >
> > Ok, so in woody we'll be using the busybox*.deb file to build the root
> > filesystem, pretty much using the same mechanisms already defined in
> > scripts/rootdisk, correct?
> >
> > Will means be provided to create the requisite symlinks in /usr/bin ?
> <sorry for being slaw to get back to this -- just when I thought I was
> going to get this last weekend to work on this they send me to Europe
> on business. I just got back last night>
>
> I am open to suggestions on exactly what you want things to like like for
> woody. With the latest busybox, all symlinks are relative one. Therefore, I
> was thinking I would just create the normal hierarchy, but instead of under /
> put everything under /usr/lib/busybox. Sound agreeable? So you could simply
> extract /usr/lib/busybox from busybox.#.deb and mv /usr/lib/busybox/* to the
> target. All the other junk (docs, manpages, etc) would be ignored. Does this
> sound agreeable?
>
> -Erik
>
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