Re: udpkg in busybox
That's very cool, the space savings look great.
Would busybox upstream want to include udpkg? It's quite debian-specific. Just
curious how that would be best handled.
-David
Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 06:01:57PM +1100 wrote:
> I just merged udpkg into busybox (havent commited it yet though), i
> havent changed the code except for removing some debugging stuff (i
> should put that back in).
>
> Building udpkg using make small its 11804 bytes.
>
> The difference between busybox with udpkg and bb without udpkg is only
> 6304 bytes, which is a relatively big savings (hope i havent made a
> mistake).
>
> I will play around more and try and merge some busybox utilities in
> there and hopefully save some more space.
>
> Actually, i just tried it on my installed system and it destroyed a few
> entries in my status file, i tried installing and removing a package,
> then when i tried to run dselect i got this type of message.
>
> dselect: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 10949
> package `libmysqlclient9':
> missing version
>
> I just deleted the entries and its ok.... i will look deeper
>
>
> Glenn
>
>
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